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    "id": 925417,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute to this Statement. I also thank my sister Sen. Seneta for coming up with this Statement. This is very serious. We are talking about our staple food. Our staple food is meat and milk. We are talking about food that is consumed by millions of Kenyans. Once it is poisoned or laced with chemicals, it is poison to millions in this country. It confirms our worst fears that actually, we do not have the necessary departments. If they are there, they are sleeping on the job. Before selling any meat, because some of us slaughter animals every other day, there is always a quality check. In fact, I recall the quality body doing some stamping that the meat is inspected and is good for consumption. So, either they are compromised, put fake stamps or they are not there or they have been eaten up by the corruption that is eating up this county. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is very serious and we should have seen people being sacked, losing their jobs considering millions of people consuming chemicals. We have a very high and alarming rate of cancer cases in this country. We are trying to wonder and questioning why. However, at the end of the day, it is because of this kind of negligence. Upon investigation, any supermarket which is found selling this meat should suffer. I ask the Committee that will investigate this to ensure that those entitled to be indicted, surcharged and made accountable, to be held as such. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we do not have to wait for Dennis Okari, whom we congratulate and thank for his good job. He should be recognized and awarded for his investigative work. We should celebrate him for coming out to tell us that we are eating poison instead recognizing those who queue to vote while eating githeri . In as much as they are entitled to be Kenyans and we respect them, they should not be the ones to receive awards. Therefore, I thank Dennis Okari for coming out. You can imagine what he has put in line in terms of his own personality and to disguise himself to do that job. This is because it is"
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