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    "id": 962585,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in addition to that, it has been suggested that perhaps it would aid in this process if cancer was declared a national disaster. We have previously declared national disasters including HIV/AIDS which after it was declared a national disaster, it was followed by certain actions including free treatment and legislation. I would suggest that alongside a Motion such as this and all other measures that we consider, we should also consider that idea of declaring cancer a national disaster if for no other purpose but to draw the attention of Kenyans generally to the issue of cancer. I also think on that point that we have failed our people especially the national Government. We cry about cancer but we seem not to have invested sufficiently to find out where there is such an incremental number of cancer cases in the last two or so decades. All the reasons that have been stated as causes of cancer are reasons that have always been there and so it cannot explain the exponential increment in the number of cancer cases."
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