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"content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I am glad to support this Motion where the Senate expresses its thanks for the exposition of public policy by the President under the state of the nation address, especially speaking after the avalanche of negativity from Sen. Cherargei. It will be good to objectively give some fresh air of positive highlight on what the President spoke about. If you are looking at something from a negative point of view, you will never see anything good. There have been a cocktail of hits and misses, but we chose to look at the glass being half-full and not half-empty. I am glad that the President made that realization when he gave his speech at the State of the Nation Address last week where we attended. At the outset, I would like to note that the speech was done at peculiar and difficult time that this country is going through, the COVID-19 pandemic which occasioned the speech to be done in November when naturally, it is supposed to be done earlier in the year. The number of Members who were allowed in the Chamber were fewer. By the time the President was speaking, we had 66,723 infections and 1,203 deaths. We are experiencing the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic which is quite lethal. We are losing so many people to the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of deaths that have been occasioned this month is more than the number of deaths that have been"
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