For courage to stand up to cancer, MP and others deserve plaudits

The very touching story of Kenneth Okoth, the Kibra constituency Member of Parliament who says his Stage 4 cancer of the colon is untreatable highlights the suffering that all those unlucky to be afflicted by the killer disease go through across the country. Cancer terrifies in ways no other disease does. Worst of all, it puts the afflicted in an uncertain, precarious position.

That Mr Okoth - by all means a VIP -opted to open up about personal suffering is quite commendable. And as we marked the World Cancer Day yesterday, his experience has once again thrust a disease that is indiscriminately disrupting and decimating life to the fore.