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    "id": 602962,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kagwe",
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        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to take off from where my colleague has left, and that is to do with the level of seriousness that we are addressing this pandemic of cancer. In Nyeri County, cancer has become a number one killer. People used to talk about HIV/AIDs and other diseases, but cancer is the most serious disease. Every other death that you hear is related to cancer. I am not a doctor but a layman. I have absolutely no doubt that it is related to the environmental degradation that we are carrying out in our own areas. When most people in Nyeri, and other counties in this country, drink water directly from the rivers--- When you have a farming community like ours, and they are spraying coffee with chemicals, using fertilizers to grow maize and have completely cut down the vegetation that stops fertilizers and chemicals from being taken down to the river by rain, then, clearly, if you drink a cup of water directly from the river, it is like getting a cup of water, adding a tea spoonful of fertilizer and half a spoon of chemicals, stir that concoction and drink it. Why would we not get sick? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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