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    "id": 1032434,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to take this early opportunity to congratulate Hon. Anthony Kiai a.k.a High Flyer for bringing this matter to our attention. We must discuss this issue as it concerns our employers. It is very clear in everyone’s mind that while COVID-19 might be a health calamity, it has presented itself as a test. It is testing leadership, families, institutions and civilisation. As we talk about it as a health crisis, we might not want to box ourselves in that small bucket of a health discussion. When did the rain start beating us? I remember that during this Session, Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu, Member for Nyeri Town, proposed that the House forms an adhoc committee specifically to deal with issues of COVID-19. His argument was that this is beyond health crisis and there was need for people to bring expertise beyond health. Had we formed that committee then, we would be having a different conversation. We are here now and this is an existential threat not only to our country and economy, but globally. It is about time we stopped everything and fought for survival. Civilizations progress if they are able to adopt, survive and live in a new reality. We are now in a new reality and we might need, as humanity, to stop everything else and survive first. When we are talking about COVID-19 and our people not being covered by the NHIF, we have to take stock. Our people are dying. We have resumed learning and we are getting reports that so far, 13 school principals have lost their lives to COVID-19. These are only those that have been reported. I am sure there are so many cases of deaths in our schools. If we have to survive, we have to make tough decisions. Hon. Nyikal, who is an authority in this sector, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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