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    "id": 654240,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/654240/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Kamande Mwangi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this amendment Bill. It is very serious that we have forgotten our plants and yet, some of them have high medicinal value and have been patented by other countries. Those countries are now selling those medicinal plants to us. Therefore, there is need for protecting and having a very good research station where our researchers will know the exact medicinal value of any plant. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we go round in towns, we see some of our wazees coming with some plants and claiming they can heal a painful tooth. Others claim that they can treat smelling feet, but none of our researchers have been given a leeway to see how they can benefit this country economically by creating employment through undertaking research. Having a research station will be of much help to us as a country. Even as we speak, we are not economically equal. In Kikuyu areas, we had a plant by the name muratina . During the era of Moi’s presidency, we uprooted muratina to fight local brewers. We, in central Kenya, are now crying because illicit brew has taken its place. If we did research, we could have given our people time to come up with a better traditional brew, which would be of help to our people and save the"
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