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    "id": 707325,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/707325/?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": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am a very sad person because I have been thoroughly frustrated by the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives. I raised this matter two years ago, but the Committee could not do anything. I waited for the Committee severally and they kept on giving the same story that the Ministry had set up a task force. I am aware that the Ministry finished with the task force and that Report should have gone to the Cabinet. It has never come out. That aside, when Hon. Washiali and his colleagues were appealing to you to defer my Motion, Hon. Washiali categorically said that the Report was ready for tabling. I am surprised now that Hon. Maanzo can say that it is in draft form. You can see that there is a deliberate effort to delay this matter. This is a very important matter for this country in terms of food security. We are stopping this country from moving into the area of biotechnology in food production because of all these delay tactics. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I appeal to you to allow me to move my Motion so that we can bring to this House a legitimate and scientifically approved report that this Parliament can use to make its own decisions. Otherwise, the Committee is using delay tactics and they have no report."
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