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    "content": "people importing sugar said to be laced with cancer causing agents in hundreds of thousands of bags. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I mourn my colleague both in the House and in the profession of journalism, such people must really face the full force of the law. They are not just benefitting themselves and their cronies but causing death. That is exactly what they are doing; they are killing us. I urge the investigating agents in this country to take this matter of contraband sugar a little more seriously. We see sugar all over the country having been illegally imported. It is said to be laced with mercury and nobody knows how many years we have consumed it. Nobody knows the number of Kenyans who have developed cancer as a result of consuming that sugar. I would urge that once investigations are completed and the culprits are brought to book, they should get to bear the full force of the law. Secondly, we keep encouraging ourselves and our countrymen and women to eat healthy. We are also advised to eat a lot of greens. Unfortunately, a big population of the residents of Nairobi and its environs are consuming greens irrigated using water that is seriously contaminated with industrial waste. As we mourn victims of cancer, one after another, we must get to a point - I thought that is where we are now - to say “enough is enough”. We should begin to deal with the real causes of cancer including banning irrigation of consumables using water that is contaminated with industrial waste. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one does not need to be a rocket scientist to realise that almost more than 75 per cent of all the green vegetables that we consume from the supermarkets and kiosks in this City are sourced from waters that are dangerous to human life. Someone just needs to enforce some of these things so that we stop losing lives in the magnitude that we are losing. With those remarks, I condole the family of my colleague. Thank you."
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