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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to move that the Kenya Institute of Primate Research Bill (National Assembly Bill No.52 of 2024), be now read a Second Time. Let me begin by thanking the Members of the Departmental Committee on Health, which I chair, for their support in the preparation and tabling of the Committee Report on the Bill in this House. The Kenya Institute of Climate Primate Bill (National Assembly Bill No.52 of 2024) by the Departmental Committee on Health was published on 26th November 2024. The Bill was read for a First Time in this House on Thursday, 5th December 2024, and thereafter committed to the Departmental Committee on Health for consideration and reporting to the House, pursuant to provisions of Standing Order 127. The principal object of this Bill is to make provision for the establishment, powers and functions of the Institute of Primate Research. This Institute conducts research using non- human primates and other experimental animals to improve human health through innovative pre-clinical research. Basically, this is an institution that exists, and it has been doing research using primates and other animals, particularly the basic research that we normally do in the development of medicines and vaccines when they still cannot be actually applied to human beings. This Bill, therefore, seeks to establish this in law and give it the powers and proper functions according to the law. Currently, this is operating under Legal Notice No. 273 of 2017 of the Science and Technology Innovation Act. This Bill intends to now establish a full Act on which it will operate so that it becomes a legal entity on its own. This is important because, since 1958, when this Institute was established, it has been operating under a Legal Notice rather than under a law. This Institute is extremely important for the primary research on vaccines and medicine. Therefore, we now need to establish it under its own Act of Parliament."
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