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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musila",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my good friend was on the Chair and he gave me an opportunity to speak. I did not expect him to interrupt me after he graciously gave me permission to contribute. I never, at any one moment, suggested that Kerio Valley was not part of Kenya. I never at any moment criticized my friend, hon. Kaino. I said that in principle, as legislators, we create institutions without tying the Government as to where the institutions should be based. In this case, the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation knows best where malaria is prevalent, where such an institute should be located and even if it is in Turkana, so be it. But that should be the responsibility of the authorities. Our responsibility here is to make the law, create the institution and leave the rest to the Government to do. Therefore, I am supporting this very strongly that we create this institution because it is desirable. Before my good friend, hon. Ethuro, interrupted me, I was going to say that, perhaps, malaria could not have been bothering us so much if it had not been for the West banning the use of DDT. I still do not believe that there is good reason for us to ban DDT because I have information that DDT is still used in some developed countries. Therefore, if DDT can be used to effectively control malaria in this country and save us from the loss of lives that we go through, it is a risk worth taking. I tend to agree with Dr. Eseli when he says that the West tends to want us to continue with this disease called malaria because they manufacture the drugs that they sell to us. He told us that malaria is big business. Therefore, it could be possible that the West bans certain drugs like DDT for this reason. When this institute is established, it will do a deeper research and inform us what drugs we should use in the control of malaria, including miti shamba because I am told that Mwarubaine has been proved to be very effective in this area. Hon. Michuki, who is in charge of the environment tells me that a certain tree that is found in Central Province called Muringa is also very useful. Therefore, this institute will also give us informed research to identify herbal cure for malaria. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another reason why malaria has been so prevalent and we have been unable to control it is the insufficient doses that our people take in the rural areas. Because of poverty, whenever people feel like they have malaria, they just rush to a kiosk, buy a number of tablets, swallow them and suppress malaria. They do not cure it. They continue taking these tablets until malaria becomes resistant to the available drugs. This is one of the biggest problems. We must, therefore, fault the Ministry of Public and Health Sanitation. Why does it allow malaria drugs to be sold in"
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