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    "id": 635518,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/635518/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me start by condemning those officers that apparently are using alien laws to arrest people and arraign them in court in this country, regardless of where they come from. The most important thing that we should look at as a country is what is in Miraa . Last year, we allocated some money in the Budget for some research to be done on Miraa . People are saying that it is not a drug, but we are not coming out, through our research institutions, to find out what is in Miraa . My fear is that somebody will come and discover the active ingredients in Miraa and make synthetic ones. The plant will then have no use for us. That is exactly what happened to pyrethrum. Kenya was one of the main exporters of pyrethrum. Countries used to come here to look for the flowers until they decided to look at what is pyrethrin and produced pyrethroids. They are manufacturing it in a synthetic manner. We can sell to them our pyrethrum if we want, or they can go on without it. That is the direction to go. The people who are arresting other people and charging them on the basis of foreign law should take the example of the chicken-gate scandal. It has not been handled like that."
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