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"content": ". The only thing we need is support from the Government that can package it, have a marketing strategy to ensure that we end up with madafu on the shelves. We import drinks that have chemical concentrations that are not even good for human consumption. This drink fights baldness by restoring loss of hair. It fights hair loss and you know how much some of us in this country spend trying to give the impression that they still have a lot of hair even when they are losing it. If only we could have a way of making this men and women take m adafu and ensure structured support from the Government. Madafu treats asthma, bronchitis, bruises, burns, colds, constipation, cough, dysentery, ear-ache, fever, flu, regular or painful menstruation, jaundice, kidney stones, nausea, skin infections, scabies, throat infection, tooth ache, tumors, ulcers, stomach upsets, body weakness and wounds. It can even treat syphilis and tuberculosis. The list goes on and on. Can you believe it? It has been used traditionally. Apart from all these extensive medicinal values that I have listed, other uses include the production of building materials. I just came from the Philippines where we were taken on a tour. One of the major tourist attractions in the Philippines, in the capital city Manila is what they refer to as the Bamboo city. Bamboo city is the official residential palace of the Vice President. They only used the coconut tree from the roofing to all other areas apart from a bit of cement. All the furniture and everything in that compound is from that tree. It is now become a tourist attraction. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this tree, therefore, provides raw materials for building. The poles are very tough and you all know about the makuti roofing “tiles”. Interestingly, we were also exposed to another factor which I had not known. In the Philippines, they use it as raw material for the textile industry. I actually bought a lot of shirts and some dresses made specifically from the coconut as a raw material just like the way we use sisal as raw material in the textile industry here. The natural and unpolluted mnazi drink is also of value. We see people dying every other time after drinking kumi kumi, tano tano and so on. But this is a natural drink packaged by God himself in the right concentrations. You simply go up the tree and collect it. It has no additives or preservatives. All we need is a structured way of marketing, packaging and refrigerating it to make sure that the local farmers get value for their money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, apart from all these others that I have talked about, we know that one of the bedrocks of our economy is tourism. The tourism industry has only two pillars; the wildlife, our beaches and the coconut tree. I do not even want to create a mental picture of all those hotels without the coconut tree. In fact, the only aesthetic value that we have which makes it different from the hotels in Nairobi or elsewhere is the presence of the beautiful coconut trees. Therefore, the coconut tree is one of the pillars of tourism industry. If it is a pillar of the tourism industry, there is a lot of money being allocated towards the cleaning of beaches, sustenance of wildlife, but like The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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