
When he took to the podium to address the over 6,000 delegates attending the inaugural National Cancer Summit, on behalf of the Council of Governors (CoG), Tharaka Nithi Governor Muthomi Njuki became emotional.
He took a few seconds to compose himself and told the attendees that his father and mother died of cancer.
Njuki said that when was he was 19 years old, his father, then a clinical officer, developed a pimple on his neck but went on with life not knowing death was beckoning.