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    "id": 220698,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kulundu",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Labour and Human Resource Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Newton Wanjala Kulundu",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to respond to hon. Members' remarks regarding this Bill. The contributions by hon. Members were good and educative. We promise that we shall include them in our final document. I am happy to give my response to the lively debate on the Occupational Safety and Health Bill, 2007. I thank hon. Members for the immense support and the recommendations proposed. I am grateful to Dr. Wekesa for seconding me and his well detailed analysis of the proposed Occupational Safety and Health Bill. I have also taken note of the views and observations made by hon. Members on various issues. It must be noted that prior to coming to Parliament, I, personally, worked in the flower industry and if anybody knows about the toxicity of the chemicals used in the flower industry, maybe, very few people in Kenya beat me in that. We were always at loggerheads with the management because there is also this habit of using us in Africa as human guinea pigs; in that the chemicals used or recommended for use for pest control in Kenya have long been banned in their countries of origin. I call upon all the multi-national companies and especially those manufacturing agro-chemicals to ensure that only those chemicals that are used in their own countries are brought here or only those chemicals that have data sheets detailing anti-toxins are brought to Kenya. There are nearly 120 chemicals in use in the flower industry. It becomes very difficult sometimes to know what to do when a particular individual is poisoned. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Ministry of labour and Human Resource Development, I am extremely happy that hon. Members have grasped the content of this Bill and previous Bills. There is only one Bill remaining which we hope to introduce and get equal co- operation from hon. Members. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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