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    "id": 927071,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Cancer as a trouble, has visited our country with its own seat and is seated everywhere. It is seated at the high table, middle table and all those tables. We all must get alarmed because if we do not get alarmed, I am sure that it will exterminate all of us. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, cancer as a disease will of course kill those it has attacked. More so, it will wipe away all your savings and resources and leave in its wake, both physical pain of loss of a loved one and the pain of losing all the resources that you probably worked for the whole of your life. If we do not deal with it, I think it is a direct ticket to poverty. If you think that you have enough resources and are able to look after yourself and family, wait until cancer invites itself into your family and gets a seat. You will go to London, India and everywhere and at the end of it all, it will only exit the family or your body once it has exhausted all the resources that you had accumulated. This is a serious issue and as we talk about prominent personalities we have lost through cancer, it is also important to remember that we stand for the voiceless and the humble people. I am absolutely sure that if you were to take a census of those who are suffering from cancer now, and do not have access to treatment, in Kibra alone, the number would be countless. If you were to go to Bomet or Makueni, where Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. ably represents, the number would be countless. I do not want to mention Migori because I suspect that most of my people there even visit witchdoctors and other forms of doctors because treatment is not available. Therefore, the proposition that we make it an obligation in our counties to provide for these services and take care of our people, is welcome and a good one."
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