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    "id": 701591,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/701591/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 131,
        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, if we do not deal with this issue, this country will be dependent on imports. This Motion seeks to bring Members from the political divide, and all sectors of the economy to carry out serious investigation on this emotive subject. This House can then have an authentic and well researched report that can inform decisions on this subject. All our national universities have biotechnology laboratories. Our youth are studying this subject but since GMOs were banned, most of these laboratories are no longer funded because most of them were donor-funded. Therefore, most of our children, whom this country is paying very heavily for, have now become redundant. Some with qualifications in bio-technology are now in banks. You can imagine how you spend so much money training a scientist, especially a bio-technologist, only for them to end up in a bank. Most of them cannot get jobs. The purpose of this Motion is to urge the House to come up with a report that is conclusive. I believe the select committee will have a chance to interrogate the Ministry of Health on what informed the ban. I am aware that the Ministry of Health formed a taskforce that was to look into this matter. The taskforce was led by very eminent---"
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