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    "id": 1564936,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1564936/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Something is not right at the Tobacco Control Board. I wish that the Cabinet Secretary listens keenly to this request. Madam Temporary Speaker, I like the fact that the Cabinet Secretary has spoken on this issue of a multi-agency team. As representatives of the people, sometimes we come into contact with information that is useful for the Cabinet Secretary to know. I know for a fact that there is a certain dispute that exists between a tobacco importing company and the board. That is a company that went through all the legal procedures and paid the taxes. However, one afternoon, the so-called multi-agency team that the Cabinet Secretary has talked about showed up at their warehouse and confiscated goods. They proceeded to the State Department for Public Health, falsified some documentation, and claimed that there were some drugs and substances in the products that the company had imported, thus putting into question many other agencies that had prior approved those products to be on the shelves in this Republic. That matter has been investigated by the DCI. I am aware that they have filed a response to the Ministry confirming that that multi-agency team actually misled the country. I would wish that the Cabinet Secretary comes back to this House and brings the findings of the DCI with him, and tell us what will be done to those officers that led this kind of cartel-like operations where we can use Government agencies to falsify records on health matters. I thank you for indulging me."
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