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    "id": 184047,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/184047/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Pharmacy and Poisons Board, a body established by law, is there to put surveillance on the drugs and poisons imported into this country and not necessarily only those imported by the Ministry, but by all kinds of traders and nitwits who would like to trade with the lives of Kenyans. Now, these traders and nitwits are in the private sector and we are supposed to check them to make sure that they do not bring to the chemists and pharmacists drugs that will hurt people's lives. As we talk today, at least 16 per cent of the drugs in this country are counterfeits. These are not just the ones that the Ministry imports, which are not counterfeit, but the ones imported by other people who would like to trade with the lives of Kenyans. Now, what we are trying to do, and the meeting in Windsor Hotel is not just a Ministry of Health issue but it is for all Government departments who are concerned, is to put into place a mechanism for making sure that drugs coming into the country are bar-coded in such a way that we shall identify the real ones and the counterfeit ones. I was saying that the Ministry is difficult to run because we are given the responsibility to deal with nitwits and counterfeit drug lords who are not our employees but men and women who are out there in the Republic of Kenya making money by trading with your lives."
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