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    "id": 1272722,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": "European nations have been dumping toxic waste in Africa. They hold some top government officials to ransom to ensure their poisonous waste, which they do not know where to dispose of, is brought to our nations. Pharmacies sell medicines that have been banned in the developed nations. Why do they bring them to Africa? Farmers use toxic pesticides that are harmful to our health. They know very well that our health system is not yet at par with theirs. Why bring them into our countries when they have tried them and found out that they are poisonous? We want the suppliers of the poisonous pesticides to be named and shamed, and if there is a board that has been compromised, it should be disbanded because we are talking about endangering people. Our people must be protected and this House has the right Members to protect them. Those pesticides that Hon. Gladys Boss has already highlighted should be put in writing and doors knocked to say that they are killing us. I know she is a very good farmer because I have witnessed her farming. She is not talking out of theory; she is pragmatic. Why should we keep lamenting that cancer is killing us and that cancer is on the rise but lack the oomph to prevent it from spreading? We must name and shame the people who allow the supply of these pesticides today, if not now. If they are in big offices, they should be made to leave them. We know very well that if we have the Cancer Fund in town, symptomatic patients will be detected in advance and when cancer is diagnosed early, it means it is not costly. It can be controlled at an early stage. Doctors know what they need to do to control or eliminate it. Actually, cancer can be healed if it is detected on time. But in Africa, cancer is only diagnosed or detected at a time when it has eaten up a person and the person is almost dying. Most people know that once they are told that they have cancer, it means that they are nearing the grave. We can do something about this. This nation at 60 years, and still counting, is not young and should not have teething issues of how. We have research being conducted at the University of Nairobi and other institutions. They can do it. Let us not think that the solution is somewhere in Europe or America; the solution is in our hands and this is the time to activate what we can do as a nation and stand tall. We must prioritise health issues. We cannot be leading graves; we want to lead healthy people for a healthy nation makes wealth."
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