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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I do not know what to think because Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko is the good cousin of Sen. Sakaja. He is everybody’s cousin and relative. Sen. Sakaja must disclose his paternity very well. I will check. I will also support this Report. From the onset, this Committee led by Sen. Sakaja has proved that there is no reason why we should not get regular Reports from any other Committee about matters that they are handling. Secondly, allow me to say that while we thank Sen. Sakaja for a good job, we rarely thank our support staff. They are the people who are taking risks; coming to the office, preparing these hard copies and doing other things, but rarely do we congratulate them. I would urge Sen. Sakaja that your good Committee finds it important to issue recommendation Reports of the support staff who have helped this Committee have 70 sittings and as many as eight Reports. I think that it is only fair. I am told that Mr. Charles Munyua is a very efficient gentleman. Madam Temporary Speaker, it goes without saying that COVID-19 disease has disrupted our lives. I think that it should bother Sen. Sakaja that there appears to be apathy with it. We seem to have given up or have thrown caution to the wind on it in terms of infections and et cetera . When the good lady, Dr. Lugaliki, may her soul rest in peace, passed on at the age of 38 years, there was a lot of hue and cry about her. I am surprised that there was not as much hue and cry about others. I think that every person who has lost their lives to COVID-19 matters; whether you are doctor, child or a person out there in the village--- The reality of this disease has come. Two Members of Parliament have lost their parents. Our condolences to the Women Representative of Baringo for losing her spouse to COVID-19. Madam Temporary Speaker, it surprises me a little and I want to propose to Sen. Sakaja that I am not certain whether these reports are shared with the various multi- agencies that are dealing with the COVID-19 once we are done with them. We rarely see the good work that Sen. Sakaja and Sen. Kasanga are doing in the briefings or in the things that these Committees are doing. Can these Reports be sent to them? Can we as a Senate spare some money and advertise our recommendations in daily newspapers? We spend a lot of money advertising our public participation sittings. I think that Sen. Sakaja, through the Clerk, can find some little budget that we can spend on half a page or even a full page; half a page is good enough on some of the progressive recommendations that we have made on COVID-19 so that this becomes useful."
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