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    "id": 788649,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Didmus Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Motion. I urge the Committee on Implementation to ensure that once this Motion is approved, it must be implemented. I usually ask myself one question. Why is it that a young man found drinking chang'aa is arrested but no action is taken against an institution that fails to implement a law that has been passed and signed by the President? Failure to follow the law and failure to implement it is one and the same. We spend a lot of time thinking and researching in this House to pass Bills but once they are signed into law by the President, institutions do not implement them. Cancer is a very serious disease that is taking away lives of productive Kenyans. We must support this Motion whose time has come. As you are aware, an idea whose time has come cannot be stopped. In the same spirit, I have seen very many Kenyans even selling their ancestral land to seek cancer medication in India and other parts of the country. It is high time that the government of the day also sacrifices by committing a good chunk of its money in setting up a cancer fund to assist the cancer patients in this country. I want to see a scenario where many Kenyans walk into health facilities for free cancer screening and treatment. The development agenda of this country is slowed down by the high rate of deaths emanating from cancer. I am curious to see how the Committee on Implementation will move to ensure that this Motion is implemented after it has been given a go-ahead by this House and the President. I also want to ensure that going forward, once a Bill has been approved and assented into law by the President, we should have a timeline of how it will be implemented. I am sure that we can take six months to implement these kind of Bills once approved, to avoid the scenario of passing Bills yet three years down the line, nothing has been implemented. The Committee on Implementation should come up with a timetable or schedule of events or activities that would be followed to ensure that the many Bills that we pass as a House are implemented. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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