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    "id": 61758,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/61758/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Munyaka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Victor Kioko Munyaka",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you can recall in the late 1980s, there was the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), which were imposed on Kenyans by the World Bank. Key veterinary services such as Artificial Insemination (AI) services, provision of dipping services and provision of veterinary clinical services were discontinued. That created a vacuum in the countryside, where there was demand for animals to be taken care of. We also remember that employment of veterinary professionals was frozen. What happened was that quacks filled the vacuum. That was when the livestock suffered. Animals were receiving wrong treatments and we lost many animals. At the same time, we lost very important markets for beef and milk. This is because our meat and milk had a lot of drug residues. Up to date, we are yet to recover the European market because of the contamination of our meat and milk. What is very worrying is that our own citizens are consuming contaminated meat and milk with drug residues. The effect of this is causing resistance on the human diseases. Most of them are cross-cutting from animals to human beings. I hope this Bill will bring a lot of sanity in this sector, so that we reduce drug residues and recover our European market for meat and milk"
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