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    "id": 927306,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "As I conclude many Members have passed their condolences to the families of the late Hon. (Dr.) Joyce Laboso and the Late Hon. Ken Okoth. I want to urge this House to allocate funds because it makes the budget of this country. We should not just allocate funds towards cancer treatment because the mortality rate is almost 90 per cent. If we allocate more funds towards cancer treatment we will not be solving this issue. Instead we should allocate funds towards cancer research so as to find out what causes it and where the rains have started beating us. This is because the rate of cancer in this country is just too high and especially in this Hon. House. We may think it is found among the rich but it is because they access diagnosis. There are those in the villages who are dying in silence. We need research done so that we can advise our people on how to avoid getting cancer. This is because the moment you get cancer, it is like a death sentence. The mortality rate is just too high, and we should approach it like we did with HIV/AIDS by preventing it. Prevention is better than cure. We will end up losing if we allocate a lot of money to cancer centres for treatment and diagnosis. We should look into ways of finding out what causes cancer and advise our people on what to do and what to avoid. It could be the chemicals sprayed in our farms or drugs injected to our livestock which end up in the meat we consume in our day to day life. We must know the cause of cancer and what accelerates it in our country so that we can have proper advice for our people. In the social media people are being told to avoid red meat, sukuma wiki, milk and soya beans. Literally, we are being told to remain hungry and not to eat anything including sugar. We need a research centre so as not to depend on social media but have concrete information on what to avoid. I am sure if we tell Kenyans this is what causes cancer, we will have solved this issue because Kenyan citizens are ready to avoid anything that causes cancer. For now, everything we eat causes cancer Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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