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    "id": 1031009,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support the Motion in the amended format. I support because I think this COVID-19 pandemic seems to be going up instead of going down. We had reached a situation where we thought things were coming down. However, as we are talking, the number of infected persons is increasing in the country. We cannot be safe as a Senate because we interact with our constituents. We interact with other members of the public. I do support that we take one day in a week so that we reduce the number of days that we are in contact between ourselves, and further, that we also are able to have the place sanitized. This is very important. Madam Temporary Speaker, I say this because painfully we lost an MCA in Uasin Gishu County through COVID-19. Thereafter when the other MCAs who had been in contact with him were tested, unfortunately we had another 12 MCAs who were already positive. We also had 27 staff who tested positive and this brought down the whole assembly. Bearing in mind that you can have a whole assembly with 40 people going down, it is possible anywhere including this Senate. We need to remove that possibility of this Senate being totally affected. For that reason, I really believe that the House Business Committee was wise to recommend that we take a break and come back for only one day in a week. With that, I support."
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