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    "id": 1033265,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikir (KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kipyegon Ng’eno",
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    "content": "colleagues normally report on how they die. There are so many other people who die in the villages. The reason they die is not because the disease is so dangerous, but because we cannot handle the disease. We have refused in totality to handle this particular pandemic. I do not believe that a country that has developed for over 50 years could even fail to offer beds where some of the sick can be treated. We have devolved billions of shillings to the counties, but simply because we have corrupted almost everything in this country, nobody would even imagine handling these matters until we cry to the national Government. Nurses and doctors are dying. These people are even refusing to treat us because they do not want to expose themselves. We do not even have simple things like PPEs which doctors can use. These are very cheap things. The equipment was brought by the Chinese. They gave it to us free of charge, but because we are reckless, useless, stupid and corrupt, we just sold them off thinking that Coronavirus will disappear because it “disappeared” in Tanzania. Coronavirus is killing people in this country, but nobody wants to think and talk about it. There is the question of schools. Our schools have been closed for the last one year. We are told we can open bars, but schools should remain closed. The people we open bars and clubs for are parents who go back to their children. So, what is the use of opening a bar or a club? People go and rave the whole night. They drink and kiss one another. They play around and then go back to their children. Then we close schools. That is stupidity of the highest order. It is high time we reasoned. The economy of this country has been ravaged. The cohesiveness in this country has also been affected. People are talking of the BBI. The BBI is not a big deal. If you want to have a cohesive country, it is us. It is not the Constitution or the law. We have enough laws that can make this country move in the right direction. It is us. It is only us who can decide to have a united country."
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