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    "id": 1029456,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I want to enjoin my son, Sen. Malalah from Kakamega County, for that very strong Statement. I have been requested by my colleagues from Busia and Vihiga counties to join in this Statement because of the surge of COVID-19 cases in the western frontier. Kakamega County is under the weight of COVID-19 pandemic and so are Bungoma, Busia, Trans Nzoia, and Vihiga and many other counties in the country. There is a limit to negligence. Some of these escalating cases are out of sheer negligence. Some of our governors are busy parading themselves on television every day pretending to be celebrating hard work when people are dying like flies. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my own governor spent Kshs18 million of public funds to stage a misguided meeting ostensibly to demonstrate what he has done in three years. That is when in Bungoma County like in Kakamega County, the national Government sent Kshs213 million for COVID-19 intervention. The county assembly has appropriated more money. That money has done nothing. That is where they have the distinction. The unenviable distinction of buying an Kshs800 jerry can for Kshs10,000. That is COVID-19 money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have lost people. Last week in Kakamega County, I went to send my messages of condolences to the family of Hon. Mabel Muruli. She was a powerful dynamic woman who was a very successful business person in the United Kingdom and came to run for the seat of Governor of Kakamega County. She was sick and within less than ten hours she was gone. There is the personal assistant to the governor. If the chief of staff of the Governor is vulnerable and he is gone, what about the ordinary man and woman at Amalemba and Chepkube markets in Bungoma County, Sofia Market in Busia County, Mbale Market and all other places in Nairobi. If the high and mighty are falling like flies, what about the ordinary people who are not catered for? I urge the President that if he is having a Summit meeting today, he must come up with new rafts of enforceable mechanisms to check COVID-19. Dr. Alushula, my good friend, was a very respected surgeon, but he is gone after a very short illness. There are many more people being buried every day in the villages. Unasikia tuati alikohoa kidogo alafu akakufa . We are getting reports that people just feel uneasy at night and they are gone by morning. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, a good lady from my county spoke to me at 6.00 p.m. on Friday evening to tell me that she wanted to see me on Saturday when I get home. However, I got a phone call from her daughter on Saturday morning informing me that she had passed on. Such cases are happening everywhere. I enjoin Sen. Malalah and all other Senators of good will who are going to speak to this Statement that we must call our county governments to order. Shouting and crying about this or that is not a solution to what we are facing. The county governments have a summit with the National Government and access to the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Health. We want a national blueprint on how to handle COVID-19. If we do not do that, this country is under serious threat. You can imagine the situation in the heavily 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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