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    "id": 1030257,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1030257/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Obviously, with this behavior and with this approach, we are not going to win the war against the unintended spread of Covid-19. Many of us shudder now that there are fresh instructions that were given yesterday by the President, where he directed the National Police Service, National Coordination Committee and the notorious city council enforcers, city council askaris to arrest and molest people who purport not to have complied with the protocols. It is going to be a tough job and if we are not careful, we are going to escalate infections in this country. I just want to ask the Departmental Committee to seriously have a very candid discussion with the Inspector-General (IG), express the fears and what they see, because if it is a minor offense, like you have found me at the gate of my house, at 10.02 p.m, I am opening the gate to my house, does it make sense to arrest me for flouting the curfew rules and taking me to a crowded cell where probably half of the people are already Covid-19 positive? I then become another statistic and then, we have the audacity to condemn ordinary Kenyans that we are reckless and that we do not understand. Yes, masks are required in crowded places. Setting the police to arrest people walking in the village parks, or to arrest people in their shambas, that has happened several times in my constituency... You cannot put on a mask in your shamba or garden. You are cultivating or weeding and you are asked to put on a mask."
}