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    "id": 465870,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/465870/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. M’uthari",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph M'eruaki M'uthari",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. So, I was saying that this Committee has done a great job since it was formed. It has gone round. We realised that, to a large extent the report is not yet out because many Government agents have done nothing regarding miraa . To a large extent, we also realised that miraa growers have been marginalised and very little has been done about this crop. So, this is a great opportunity for the people of Nyambene who grow miraa to get justice by having their issues addressed appropriately by the Government. Through this report the Government has started taking this issue seriously. Various agencies have already put in place some proposals. Even if findings of some of these proposals may not come in time for this Committee, but it will require time to reach out to the people it has not met. These are institutions like NACADA. NACADA has been giving misinformation which is not informed by facts but by myths. The findings we are getting from the premier research institutions in this country are that there is no substantive research that has been carried out. The findings that are there tend to condemn the crop. The research that has been carried out did not follow the material facts. It did not look at miraa holistically and because of that we are likely to lose important materials which could be produced from"
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