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    "id": 640085,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/640085/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. King’ola",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. While I support this Motion, I am just going to hospital. My father is also suffering from the same, though he is 90 years old. I thank Hon. Wanga for bringing this Motion. However, I want Kenyans to know the causes of cancer. Sometime back, we used to be told that cancer is a disease of the white man. However, it is now everybody’s disease. When you look at our rivers and environment, we see heavy metals discharged from the sewer systems from our cities. That water goes downstream. Many Kenyans and people from all over the world who consume that water consume those heavy metals like lead. Lead causes that disease. Again, the agencies that are tasked with controlling the environment are not efficient. The effluence that is being discharged to most of those sewers and ending in our rivers is where some of those diseases are coming from. Even our animals are drinking the same water. There is an increase in cancer because the plants we are growing are taking in those chemicals. That is why we are saying that corruption has eaten to the born because, if you look at the food products that are being produced, some of the imports that are coming into this country are not efficiently or professionally inspected and, hence, they are bringing a lot of radioactivity. 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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