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    "id": 1009230,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1009230/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to make a few appropriate remarks regarding this matter. Migori County is one of the most adversely affected. We are a county that is vulnerable and affected by many incidents of COVID-19 infection, poverty, unemployment, poor harvest and general absence of money attributable to COVID-19 invasion. This kind of report is good. I am happy the House, in which I am a Member, regularly and promptly generates reports regarding COVID-19 because that is the single most intrusive invasion that we are experiencing as a county and as a nation. Madam Temporary Speaker, if it was not for COVID-19, I am sure the lives of many of my electors in Migori would be a little better than they are now. We would be having our children in school and farmers going about their business since we are a farming county. They would be particularly going to markets to get riziki ya kila siku . I am sorry for using Kiswahili. I should not mix two languages in my contribution, but I think for those farmers, it is important for them to hear. They are tobacco, sugar cane, maize, cassava and all the farmers we have in Migori County. We also have fishermen and women; the fishmongers who are the equivalent of Billingsgate Fish Market. We have them in Migori, Kisumu and other places. All these people are affected. They are happy that the Ad Hoc Committee that we have put in place is vigilant and is listening to their cries, advising the Government and receiving feedback from the Government as to what is being done in their situation. This is good news. Madam Temporary Speaker, I urge this Committee that we have tasked with the responsibility of COVID-19 to try as best as they can, to avail hard copies of this report. Most Members here are analogue; few of us are digital and it is still important for us to access the reports because the content has serious advice that we need to internalize. I ask the Senate, through the Committee, to avail as many hard copies as possible because some of those digital equipment is, probably, also affected by COVID-19, if you know what I mean. The hard copies would be more readable and easily usable by us. Madam Temporary Speaker, looking at the way COVID-19 is behaving; it is not in a hurry to go anywhere---"
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