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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak. At the outset, I support this Bill, especially on matters pertaining to health. I am just from my county where I had gone to bury one of my supporters who had died of cancer. The issue of cancer is serious in the Republic of Kenya. Cancer is killing more people in Kenya than even HIV/AIDS. I am glad that the national Government can discuss this. My proposal is that we should have cancer centres in every constituency and not every county. This is one of the diseases that have made our people poor. It has made many families suffer as their relatives die silently. So, I really support and I hope that county governments will come in handy and start cancer centres. I also hope that the national Government will come in and equip them. When hon. Members go to their constituencies, they should create awareness especially on screening of cancer for women. They can be screened for breast and cervical cancer to prevent many women from dying. I am also passionate about the issue of sports. I am concerned that our sports sector has not been managed very well in this country. We have the World Cup for women and I have not heard or seen big support for women football clubs in Kenya. I hope that county governments can start having football teams for women, where we can support women in that level. If our men have failed to go to the World Cup, I am very sure the women can qualify and go to the World Cup and represent not only Kenya, but also Africa. On the issue of NACADA, it is very sad that we are fighting drug abuse. I like the Member from the Coast region who has said that NACADA has not been seen to work. We have actually fought very much. It has really affected the Central region. It is very sad to report to this House that when we are fighting the second generation alcoholic beverages, we have one of our main brewers in this country boasting of making a lot of profit in terms of billions. There is one beverage called keg that our young men have gone back to. It is frozen. They are consuming it in cups and small glasses and it is cheap. It is now killing our people more than the second generation alcohol. I hope that we will amend the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act so that we can protect our youth. We should also not allow hawking of alcoholic beverages. Two days ago in Kiambu County, we had some young men who lost their lives. They were taking that beverage and also adding different ones because they were just buying it with a cup. We really need to take care of our young people. I hope that licencing, which is being done by the county governments, will help us in becoming very strict on how many bars we licence and even when we licence them, we should monitor what is being sold in those bars. I support the issues of transport. Sometimes, I am really disappointed when I go to the villages and find that the road that the Member of Parliament is using the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to build is the same road that has been allocated money by the governor. We are really misusing our resources. I hope this amendment will help the national and county governments to plan so that they can complement each other and not compete or outdo each other. 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."
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