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    "id": 1013695,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "On the eight report, we are half way through our mandate. We checked on general issues on accessibility especially accessibility of basic needs by most of the people and how food was being distributed to the vulnerable by the national Government and also what the county governments were doing towards that. We observed that there were a lot of measures needed to be put into place because of these issues. Since there were floods at around that time, and locust invasion, we were worried about counties that are not easily accessible. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we also lauded heavily. We Commended the efforts of private sector initiatives because we came across those in a big way. Private sector came out at a time of COVID-19. We realize that Kenyans have their own solutions. What they need is to be given the space to participate in creating solutions. The Nineth Report was tabled on 23rd September, 2020. There was a bit of a distance between the Eighth and the Nineth report. As you are aware, the House was very busy on other activities. It was somewhere in between there Sen. Sakaja resigned from the Committee. It took a bit of time to reconstitute. We lost some time there. Our ninth report is heavily to do with our county visits. We were able to finally ask the Seat of the Speaker to allow us to do more county visits. This is because by then, the focus for COVID-19 had moved to the counties. Money had already been disbursed to the counties. We considered the Controller of Budget (CoB) report on how counties had prepared for, budgeted and spent their COVID-19 funds. We needed to go and see how they approached all the five thematic areas that we were oversighting. We were able to visit the Coastal Region. We have put that in our Ninth Report, which hopefully will be adopted today. It is also the Ninth Report that we engaged with the health frontline workers especially at the county level. We were able to see the challenges they have. Because of the challenges that they have and most of them you have seen them articulated on media. You have heard the doctors really complain. The strikes are now almost becoming like everyday news. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these issues, as a Committee in the Ninth Report, we want to recommend that the Senate Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, which is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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