John Michael Njenga Mututho

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Aluminum as we know it, is not good. I want to read to you the effects of aluminum in our bodies. I see a lot of professors here, some of them in medicine and they will support me on this position. Aluminum causes conditions similar to what we see with Mohammed Ali. This is a condition that affects our co-ordination. I do not want to say that people who suffer from loss of memory, so far, have been eating this aluminum too much, but it is implied. I read: “Chronic injection of aluminum may cause aluminum related bone disease or ... view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will help the hon. Member by telling him that if he looks at the report by the Government Chemist and all the reports that were tabled yesterday in this House, they indicate that the contamination was aluminum phosphate after the explosion. The damaging component is aluminum. “Chronic consumption” means that you are consuming like we do. For example, in all our diets, we have unga and maize meal. That is what I am talking about. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Let me proceed, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I have--- view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, any medical doctor will tell you that somebody like Mr. Mututho who does not drink, you do not need to give him a big dose of anaesthesia to make him sleep for surgery. A simple drug, even a smell of it, will make him sleep. Others who drink heavily may require a whole dose of that medicine. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: What I am saying here is that aluminum was found present in that bad sample. Whether it was consumed, whether somebody has kept it--- view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: I want to specify. By the way, you can also get aluminum from you sufuria. However, if you continue consuming aluminum depending on your physiology, some things can happen. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: That depends on your body. I am not a medic. This is not an alarmist situation. That is why KEBS and the health authorities in this country decided that this maize should be destroyed. We concurred with them. view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the quantity of maize, which we are talking about, we believe it is in Mombasa. I do not know what the hon. Minister is alarmed about. The Prime Minister confirmed that maize is in Mombasa. All we are saying is that, that maize view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is Prof. Olweny in order to mislead the House? The GMO process involves introducing something from another species. That something we introduce at the genetic level makes it an organism. So, it is called a “genetically modified organism”, because it cannot be the same as the view
• 14 May 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to ask my friend and senior, the Minister, to support his argument, because I am prepared to table a document which gives a summary of the world research on food productivity based on GMOs, showing clearly that there has never been any significant change except for the maize variety MO810, which increased up to a level of 10 per cent and not beyond that. I wish to table this Report entitled “Failure to Yield”, so that Members can have a chance to look at it. But if he ... view