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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, you have seen the way things have been in schools of late. Schools have been reopened and the infection rate has increased. I feel that even if we have been elected to represent our people, the most important thing is to talk to our people and tell them that this is not the way things are. When you go to bars and hotels, you will be shocked. Even where we sit, Members decide to come and collect around one table, instead of following the rules. In bars and hotels, you see groups together. That is increasing infection and things like that do not work. If are serious, we should stop doing things the way President Trump and his Government are doing things. Here, we have to follow the protocols of the Ministry seriously. Madam Deputy Speaker, the other issue that I want to talk about is the issue of the BBI. I have been quiet on this issue, but I do not think we are doing the right thing. You cannot even imagine the number of people who are dying per day and we still talk of BBI. Which is more important? Is it for Kenyans to take care of COVID-19 and stop this pandemic, or to change the Constitution? The Constitution is not going anywhere. What is the emergency? What is this hurry? We can do it next year. I think it was the evangelical church that said that we can even increase the term of the President and his team by one year. It does not matter, instead of killing more Kenyans. If we have to do it within one year to the elections, then increasing our term by one year should not be a problem, instead of killing people. I do not see the rush in this BBI issue. Is do not see why want to use the little resources that we have to do campaigns and a referendum, when we need this money to take care of our health personnel who are dying by the day."
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