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    "id": 1033220,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we must rise to the occasion. I am sure for those of us seated here, our people are dying. The numbers we see announced by the Ministry of Health are less than 0.01 per cent. Kenyans are dying in their villages. For me, as a Muslim, when a person passes on, we bury him within the first six to eight hours. The COVID-19 infection rate has gone up. It is sad today that as a country, we do not have an insurance cover for our civil servants. The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) came out and said they cannot cover COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, we are not addressing the situation of the healthcare system in the counties. It is either the National Treasury is not giving them money or they are eating the money meant for COVID-19. If you go to any of the Level 5 referral hospitals, you will find that there are no Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and masks. I was in my constituency and people who cannot raise Kshs500 for their daily bread are being told to buy a mask for Kshs1,000, Kshs2,000 or Kshs500. The President must declare COVID-19 a national disaster. Above all, we, as the leadership, must lead by example. We must protect the vulnerable section of the society, the elderly and people whose immune systems are not strong and have underlying medical conditions. A spade must be called a spade and not a big spoon. The Departmental Committee on Health, the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Budget and Appropriations Committee must ask the Minister for the National Treasury to bring a supplementary estimates budget that will redirect the resources we have towards fighting this epidemic called COVID-19. Finally, if you want to build a cohesive and united nation, the voice of the Malakote people, who are the minority in Tharaka and Garissa, must be heard. You cannot build one Kenya when you leave out the pastoralists, church and women. I want to talk to the women of Kenya; you better remain in this House, so that you become ministers and assistant ministers. The Senate in its current 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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