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    "id": 1031978,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1031978/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to comment on the State of the Nation Address. The President was bang on point. Any sitting President must at all times be able to appraise Kenyans of any dangers or threats to the nation. One of the issues he picked as a threat to this nation is the COVID-19 pandemic. He could not have done better than that because the issue that is slowing us down. Whether we are talking of education, health, industrialization and manufacturing, the pandemic is one single element that is slowing done everything that we have achieved in this country. Therefore, the President appropriately addressed that issue with the proviso of what Kenyans must do. One of the things we must appreciate is that wherever there is a pandemic, there will always be a shift of resources from non-vulnerable areas to this vulnerable. In this case, he has appropriately shifted the resources from other areas that can wait for development to tackle the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic. How I wished that both the national and county governments can now synergize their efforts to address the issue of the PPEs for frontline workers whom we are losing by numbers. It is very painful to me when I see some of my own students like the late Dr. Ayisi, who I trained as a postgraduate pediatrician, he is gone like many other frontline workers. I have also witnessed some of the best teachers of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Teachers (KUPPET) in this country who have lost their lives through this COVID-19 pandemic. The health protocols that have been put in place are so critical and important in dealing with this pandemic because if we do not do so, we will lose more and more people. We are in the second wave of this disease. When we look at the pathogenesis, the evolution of this disease from the original level to the current wave is the mutation of the virus to something else more non-responsive to the remedies we have been applying in the first primary phase. It is now beating every conceivable treatment that is being given to the patients. I believe one of the most important measures is that prevention is better than cure. The public health protocols that have been put in place must be rigorously followed. We must follow them without any exception. You will be surprised that more than 60 per cent of these illnesses will be reduced to something we can cope with. I believe the"
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