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    "id": 1032435,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1032435/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
        "slug": "john-kiarie-waweru"
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    "content": "has made an important statement that, in unusual circumstances, usual solutions never work. We must look for ways to survive this menace. As Members of Parliament, we are doing our level best to persuade our National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) committees to cover as many vulnerable constituents as we can. As we talk about the NHIF, we want to ask our NG-CDF Committees to make it a bit easier and smooth for us to be able to cover the most vulnerable in our constituencies. This House must make some tough decisions if we have to survive. We must stand up as the representatives of the people and speak the truth. If we have to make a decision about choosing between existing bureaucratic traditions and surviving, we should choose survival. If we have to choose between making new laws and surviving, I believe we should invest in new laws. It is difficult to explain to anyone how we can afford money for a yes or no campaign, but we cannot afford to cover COVID-19 patients. It would cost us Kshs7 billion to employ 10,000 teachers, but we want to prioritise something else over what is critically important for us – which is survival. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, give me a second to put a question to the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health. Could it be that someone somewhere has made a decision that the new strategy is weaken immunity and we should all get sick…"
}