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    "id": 974552,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank Hon. Gladys Shollei for that Petition. I belong to the Departmental Committee on Health. We handled the last Petition by Hon. Shollei and I wish to request your indulgence, Hon. Speaker, on this kind of Petition. It is a serious Petition and the Committee needs to deal with several agencies and the international community which deals with these products for guidance. Some products have been banned in Europe, but they are approved by our authorities. This is a Petition that, I believe, should not take the same course as other petitions. We need to sit down and come up with a clear time framework where we will engage the agencies that ban certain products in Europe. It also raises fundamental issues about the security of this country. I want to encourage the Member that we will take the matter seriously. We still have pending requests from the original Petition. We have written to several agencies across the globe to give us clear evidence. We are dealing with some suppliers and an industry that is worse than terrorists. Some of these multinational companies dump their banned products in Africa. They use our regulatory authorities to make sure that they push the products to the African market. So, I will convey this to my able Chair and the Vice-Chair, so that we can have a quick sitting and come up with some timeframe. We will make sure that we involve all the relevant local agencies, including the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) I and the entire security agencies."
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