{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=148067","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=148065","results":[{"id":1498852,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498852/?format=json","text_counter":446,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Uasin Gishu County, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Gladys Boss","speaker":null,"content":"The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1498853,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498853/?format=json","text_counter":447,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Uasin Gishu County, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Gladys Boss","speaker":null,"content":"you that certain products are for export and so, they will use pyrethrum-based pesticides on them. However, nobody checks the products for the local market. Again, the Pesticide Atlas was done by over 22 professors from Kenya. It has been peer-reviewed abroad. Even if you build your lab forever, you will not have that information. When you tell us that you are doing the labelling, how many farmers can read and understand what the quantities of some of those components like sulphate are? They cannot understand those labels. You just need to remove it from the market. Over 6,000 types of pesticides are sold in Kenya. If we remove 267 of them, which I have isolated as being harmful, we will still have many other pesticides in the country. Out of the 267, the PCPB has removed seven. However, they are moving too slowly. We will have too many deaths by the time they test all the pesticides. That information is out there. You do not need to do your own evaluation. The world has already done it. The entire Europe has done it. The entire America has done it. There is no way you will build a lab and do the evaluation in Kenya. That is a lie."},{"id":1498854,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498854/?format=json","text_counter":448,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Cabinet Secretary, to make progress…"},{"id":1498855,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498855/?format=json","text_counter":449,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia raised up his hand)"},{"id":1498856,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498856/?format=json","text_counter":450,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Dr Mutunga, you have said your piece. As the Chairman of the Committee, I do not want you to appear to be holding brief for the Cabinet Secretary who is present. The Cabinet Secretary will step down this Question. I will direct you to come next week on Wednesday afternoon before we break to specifically deal with this Question. Hon. Owen Baya, communicate with your boss to ensure that the Cabinet Secretary comes to answer this Question. As patriotic Kenyans, and as a country whose economy is rooted in agriculture, which employs 70 per cent plus of our workforce, it should concern Members that we do the right things. We now have duty-free and quota-free access for our products that are being exported to Europe. However, if they hit non-tariff barriers in terms of scientific checks and are returned, we lose as a country and it harms our economy. Constituencies like Gichugu, whose economic base is horticulture, will suffer, and so will everybody else. Cabinet Secretary, you have a duty to ensure that Kenya benefits from scientific development, both internally and externally. What is developed in America or Europe is universal. We do not want to hear Members crying about the prevalence of cancer cases. Why do we have a serious prevalence of cancer cases in areas where those chemicals are in use? Why are there fewer cases in pastoralist areas? Go, prepare your response and come back on Wednesday to respond to this particular Question. We will go to the other Questions so that you can satisfy the people of Kenya. You are not just addressing Parliament; you are addressing the country."},{"id":1498857,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498857/?format=json","text_counter":451,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr Andrew Mwihia Karanja","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock Development","speaker":null,"content":" Yes. We are well guided, Hon. Speaker."},{"id":1498858,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498858/?format=json","text_counter":452,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"QUESTIONS BY PRIVATE NOTICE"},{"id":1498859,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498859/?format=json","text_counter":453,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Question 015/2024"},{"id":1498860,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498860/?format=json","text_counter":454,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Let us now go to the first Question by Private Notice by Hon. Geoffrey Ruku. Question 015/2024 is dropped."},{"id":1498861,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498861/?format=json","text_counter":455,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(QPN 015/2024 dropped)"}]}