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    "id": 654230,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "but we are doing a lot of disservice and I am hoping that once we beat the deadline, we can bring back some of the Bills to this House and relook at them and amend them further. One of the Bills that I hope we can look at in tandem with this one is the one that we passed on traditional rights on plants, which is related to this one. If we are serious, we should consolidate them and do exactly what this memorandum says this Bill seeks to do. Otherwise, the intention is good. We will be proposing to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co- operatives some of the amendments if it is possible, but they will be fairly cosmetic amendments. I remember a case that we did in the first year in the School of Law. It was Carlille vs Carbolic Smoke Ball and Company where a company purported to cure the common flu and told everybody in the world that had not been cured by their medicine that they would be given a reward. Somebody who did not get the cure went to the company and sued it. It is a case on contract law. The reason I am saying this is that my mother who was a trained nurse knew when she could use the conventional medicine and where it did not work like in the case of the common flu. As I grew up as a little child, my mother used traditional medicine which, unfortunately, I do not know how it cured the common flu. She did not get it from Tanzania; she got it from Kenya. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need a law which is serious because, as a country, we have very many plants of medicinal value that are very good for food. They are good for enhancing food security in a country where we have majority that are extremely poor and yet, we are not doing a lot to protect our own plants. I have said before on the Floor of this House about the case of the Rosy Periwinkle which is a plant in Madagascar that has enhanced the chances of children being cured from leukemia. I have also given, in the past, an example of our own"
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