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    "speaker_name": "Capt. Nakitare",
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        "legal_name": "Davis Wafula Nakitare",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, taking into consideration that most developed countries have banned genetically modified (GM) foods due to their dangers to human beings and the environment; further aware that the Government has not put in place any policy guidelines to guard against the introduction of such foods; this House urges the Government to ban all genetically modified products in Kenya. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we know that technology has changed tremendously. We are also aware that developed countries use Third World countries as guinea pigs. July 5, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1833 I beg to introduce this Motion with a lot of concerns some of which are to do with laying emphasis on research. I would like to challenge the various research departments in the Ministry of Agriculture that conduct research to get information and apply it through the consumer who, in this case, is the farmer. A lot has not yet been done. It is common knowledge that whenever we experience food shortage in this country, scientists come to our country and advise that if we follow this and that technology, we will not have food shortage any more. I believe that Kenya has enough land only that it lacks a technology that is labour intensive with regard to production of foodstuff. We have issues with companies that have come here to dump technology and then leave. I take issue with a company like Monsanto. In early 1970s Monsanto undertook research on cassava in West Africa. The net result was that the cassava they produced turned poisonous and people started dying. That project was abandoned in Senegal and this was a pleasure for the Green Belt Movement which felt that the environment was being affected. In 2001, the same company came to Kenya and undertook a research on Irish potatoes in Njoro to fight potato blight. It was looking for a crop that would be resistant to pests. The project failed and it was abandoned. The same company was in Brazil. It undertook research and introduced genetically modified products in that country. It also started planting soya beans."
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