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    "id": 928997,
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    "speaker_name": "Mwingi North, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Nzengu",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Musyimi Nzengu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. Before I speak to the Motion, I want to take this opportunity to send my condolences to the families and constituents of Kibra Constituency for the loss of Hon. Okoth. I also send my condolences to the family of the late Hon. (Dr.) Joyce Laboso, the Governor of Bomet County. I also send my condolences to other families in the country, particularly in my constituency because as we know, cancer is killing people daily. Every weekend, we spend money and time burying different people in our constituencies out of death from cancer. I lost my father through the same. So, this is something we are very close to. This Motion is timely and I support it. I want to acknowledge that it is not just cervical cancer, but there are other forms of cancer that are causing death. The recent deaths of our colleagues have not necessarily resulted from cervical cancer. As other Members have said, we have discussed matters about cancer and this is probably the fourth Motion. We need to make a final step in ensuring that it is entrenched in the law and that the screening of cancer is made mandatory and free. We recognise that in the county governments, a lot of money is being spent on health services. Most of it is spent on infrastructure development and I think we now have enough infrastructure that can support our health services at the county level. Therefore, money should be diverted into buying equipment. I propose that every Level Four Hospital should have cancer screening equipment so that the ordinary mwananchi out there who cannot afford to pay for cancer screening can take advantage of free cancer screening as proposed by the Hon. Member."
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