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    "id": 1034864,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Vihiga CWR, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Beatrice Adagala",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Kahai Adagala",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am also a Member of this Committee. We have gone through pain working all over and visiting several counties, hospitals and organizations like KEMSA to investigate matters concerning COVID-19 and the KEMSA scandal. It has not been easy. It has been a difficult task for this Committee having meetings with various stakeholders and the people concerned. We eventually came up with this Report. Many Kenyans and medics have died of the COVID-19. This is a pandemic we were not ready for. For the sake of the people who lost their lives, including those who are still losing their lives, we need to adopt this Report so that the necessary entities or bodies that are supposed to do proper investigations can go on with their work. People are talking of ‘COVID-19 millionaires.’ As a Committee, we really tried our best. The security apparatus should now come in and act on the Committee’s recommendations and handle the remaining cases to see that if it is corruption, people who are concerned and have taken money from this COVID-19 kitty at KEMSA are prosecuted and maybe recover the money. Right now we are in the second wave of this pandemic. It is serious. We need masks. Our people in the villages need masks, treatment and PPEs. The medics and the frontline workers need to be supplied with the necessary materials. Somebody said the backline workers must also be looked at. So, as a Committee, we have done what we could. Some of it is in the whole country’s domain. It was so emotional to some of the leaders, especially our senior doctor here. People may look at it and think it is a simple thing. My party, the Amani National Congress (ANC), has lost a Member just because he could not get oxygen in one of the hospitals in the village. This is a serious matter. It is not a laughing matter. This House needs to support Members of the Committee with what it has come up with so that proper investigations are done by the investigative entities, to bring culprits to book so that Kenyans can know those who embezzled funds meant for COVID-19. It is a curse. Somebody is 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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