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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sungu",
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        "legal_name": "Gor Eric Sungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think the Mover of this Motion needs to be congratulated for bringing such a futuristic Motion to the Floor of this House. I think the Ninth Parliament must be congratulated for tackling issues that are of national importance, and which concern the future of humanity. I would really love to support this Motion except that I would have liked to substitute the word \"ban\" with \"regulate\" but unfortunately, I have come too late to propose an amendment because we are unfortunately going to lose a Motion which is of major significance to the future of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speake, Sir, the issue of GM foods raises questions of genetic engineering. When you raise the issue of genetic engineering, you should be very careful because there are questions of ethics and environmental impact. Nobody has ever done research on the possible effect of GM technology that is coming to our country when we are ill-prepared to regulate it, have a legal framework and adequate scientific knowledge to ensure that it is used. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other day we had Omieri somewhere in the Nyando Basin which gave birth to 100 odd small snakes. Can some scientist tell us what would happen if Omieri went to the rice fields in Yala Swamp and ate GM rice or something produced from that, and then it became a huge snake like an anaconda which is common in South America, but not here in Kenya? Can you imagine how many chicken or animals this anaconda would consume and what possible effects it would have on the future of this country? The questions that come to the fore are unimaginable because we do not have the knowledge and capacity to fathom, even from the word go the potential of GM foods. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think there is a good cause for supporting this Motion, except that I would have been very happy if it was \"regulating\" rather than \"banning\" GM foods, because the latter raises questions of how do we feed our people in the face of immense problems of drought and so on. GM organisms could bring drought resistant crops that could be producing larger quantities where fewer quantities are produced. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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