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    "id": 937589,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/937589/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndwiga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njeru Ndwiga",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Statement is very important at this time in this Republic. We need to be very concerned not just about maize, but also about the kind of food that Kenyans are eating. When it is export commodities, such as peas, tomatoes et cetera, the inspection process is very stringent. However, if you go to Marikiti today to buy your normal domestic vegetables, nobody cares where it has come from. We have no authority that inspects the kind of food that Kenyans are consuming. The last time I checked, the pesticides residuals that we are consuming are shocking. The other day in my Committee, we had issues of glyphosates and other pesticides. We, as a Committee of this House, are very concerned, and we are checking those issues. The information availed to us is that Kenyans are consuming high levels of pesticide residues. Maybe the high occurrence of cancer in this Republic is due to lack of stringent measures to inspect the kind of food we are consuming. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not want to preempt where you will direct this issue to, but I believe that this is a situation that requires very urgent attention, so that we may save Kenyans from most of the things that are happening. As a Committee, we were thinking of establishing a food and drug authority. However, when we checked around we were informed that the National Assembly has already drafted such a Bill and it has been read the First Time. We, as a country, need that kind of an authority that will take care of the kind of foods that we are eating. All of us consume ugali . We do not know the kind of"
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