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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, just to pick up from where the Hon. Member for Kamukunji has left, it is not really a matter of whether the Question went to the Committee on Implementation. The issue is why the Cabinet and the Executive for that matter are so lethargic. Do they have to wait for the President to give an edict that the ban on mitumba importation has been lifted for them to be seen to be acting? I would have expected that since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared sometime in March - about five months ago – these CSs and principal secretaries would have been putting in place contingency measures to enable the economy to reopen without waiting to be prodded by Parliament and the President. This is a very serious matter. It does not just concern the mitumba sector. It concerns almost every other sector. We want to be assured that the Executive is taking measures to allow the economy to reopen in all sectors including education. Currently, we are being told that schools will be opened in January. We fear that once January comes, we shall be told that because the numbers of COVID-19 infections are spiking, let us push it to April. In the meantime, nothing is being done to prepare the country for reopening. This is a problem that cuts across the Executive. Something needs to be done. I urge the President to crack the whip on these lazy Cabinet Secretaries."
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