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Politicising miraa is gambling with lives

During a recent parliamentary session, former Majority Leader Aden Duale alleged that miraa is a drug and that passing of the amendment to make it a cash crop and the subsequent appropriation of money for its marketing, was ill informed. He further alleged the gazetting of the crop was a political move aimed at penetrating the Meru region by ‘dangling the miraa carrot’.

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