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"content": "This piece of legislation is important because we hitherto did not have legislation that had aligned the attention cancer should have with the devolved nature of our governance structure. This proposition that counties get involved as key players in trying to control, prevent and handle the threat of cancer, is one that must be supported. This is because the Constitution, as we made it in 2010, envisaged that health will be carried out in counties, and that resources must be put in counties, so that we attend to it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that my colleagues and I have paid our tribute and sent our condolences to the families of both the late Gov. (Dr.) Laboso and Hon. Ken Okoth. However, we may be forgetting that just this month we also lost Joe Kadenge. Joe Kadenge, as we all know, was a great player. We also lost him through cancer. This means that if we were to look at the statistics of the people we lose through cancer, the list would be endless. Cancer seems to be what Chinua Achebe was talking about. He said:-"
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