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    "id": 701638,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/701638/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Washiali",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 151,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
        "slug": "benjamin-washiali"
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    "content": "If that report came to the House, I am sure among the resolutions that had been adopted was that the Government should allow non-ingestive GMO products. I remember very well because we have Bt Cotton and some GMO trees which the Government, according to that report or the resolutions, had allowed as we continue with research. The Government should now allow non-ingestive GMO products, so that those which are ingestive like maize that he was talking about, undergo further research. Another thing he may have mentioned here and I want to correct is that this taskforce stopped research on GMOs. Research on GMOs is still going on. I am sure we may very soon access other reports that have been exhaustively done by our researchers at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI). We have a very serious department that handles GMOs in KARI. We also have other research stations at UoN and JKUAT. Research on GMOs is going on. I beg that you make a ruling that the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, which has looked at this issue, tables the report. You can give it a timeline of two weeks. If it is not exhaustive enough, we can revisit this Motion, so that we can then come up with a select committee. I beg to oppose."
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