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    "id": 34807,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/34807/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish the hon. Member was more consistent and organized in his questions. He has talked about two things here. He is talking about maize that was imported into the country supposedly in 2009 as non-GMO, but when tested, was found to have been GMO. This is what he is talking about, and this is the report that he has tabled here. So, he is not in any way contradicting the Statement that I have made. However, since we formally allowed the importation of maize into the country with effect from last month, no importer has gone and applied for permission to bring GMO maize. I said that we had agreed that only millers would be allowed to bring in GMO maize; the reason being that GMO maize will be milled and sold as flour and not as maize or grain because some people would use it as seeds. That is the reason why other importers were not allowed to import it. I have given a list of maize which has come into the country since that time. Most of it has come from Zambia and Malawi, which are GMO free countries. Secondly, he has talked about lorries which are on the roads. I cannot inspect lorries on the roads right now. I wish he could give us shipping documents, if that consignment has come into the country as shipped cargo. That way, we would verify. He is talking about GMO maize, but he is not telling us about the origin of the maize and whether--- Some maize has been coming from Tanzania and some from Uganda."
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