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    "id": 928644,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/928644/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, how come Africa is different? How come cancer is not ravaging countries such Indonesia with 300 million poor people? We need answers to these questions. What has descended on Africa? We do not hear of serious cancer cases in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morroco and Algeria. Why black Africa? Has somebody unleashed a bungled laboratory test on us? At one time, we were told that HIV/AIDS was a result of chemical weapons gone bad that were unleashed on people. However, nobody talks about HIV/AIDS anymore. People just do things their way. However, as we speak about cancer, I would like to urge Sen. (Dr.) Ali and his Committee on Health not to forget the other disease that is a major killer of African children; that is malaria. Cancer is hitting us and we are all frightened, but out of every 10 children born, four perish because of malaria. In some areas, like where Sen. (Dr.) Ali comes from, the mortality rate is very high. As we cry about cancer, the biggest problem in Wajir is clean water and the lack of sufficient health facilities for people to seek treatment. We, therefore, need to look at all these issues. If we do not address them, we will be presiding over the demise of our generation, and the situation will look genocidal. Genocide is not only about taking machetes and killing people the Rwanda way; it is also being negligent in the management of affairs where people just die en masse, the way people are dying now of cancer. As this is happening in Kenya, people are in a mad rush to accumulate wealth primitively at the expense of everything else. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with people who are saying that the President should declare cancer a national disaster. However, the real national disaster in this country is corruption, because it denies you and me everything. It makes even the finest of doctors to worship and adore money instead of saving lives. That is moral and professional corruption; it is a decay of moral integrity. This is where the problem lies, and where the first drop of rain started to hit us. Right now, we want to push more money to the counties, but who will watch the watchers, as the lawyers say? Yesterday, I was having a meeting with my brothers; Raila, Kalonzo and Mudavadi. Hon. Mudavadi made us laugh by saying, “When we go to the"
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