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    "id": 1026296,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1026296/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13322,
        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
        "slug": "john-kiarie-waweru"
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    "content": "THAT, the declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) early in 2020, the Government of the Republic of Kenya has been pronouncing various health protocols to curb the spread of the disease in the country; THAT, one of the critical measures taken by the Government of Kenya in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19 was the abrupt closure of schools countrywide on 15th March 2020. At the beginning of the first term this year, the petitioners had supplied commodities worth millions of shillings to various public secondary schools; THAT, the closure of schools before the petitioners could be paid for the supplied commodities, occasioned a loss of livelihood for the petitioners whose main business is the supply of goods to schools; THAT, to date, the suppliers who had supplied these commodities to the public secondary schools at the beginning of the first term of the academic year, 2020 are yet to be paid; THAT, most suppliers heavily depend on loans from financial institutions to run their businesses and hence the non-performance of these loans continues to attract interest and heavy penalties. I, further draw the attention of this House to the fact that the petitioners have not benefited from the numerous Economic Stimulus Programme measures that the Government of Kenya has initiated to cushion the small and medium enterprise from the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to keep them afloat. THAT, the petitioners have severally sought redress with the Ministry of Education regarding payments of outstanding amounts of money owed to them by public schools. However, their efforts have been futile."
}