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    "id": 1059612,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to speak on this Motion of Alteration of the Senate Calendar. In as much as the reason for alteration is because of the wave of the COVID-19, I thought I should share with my fellow Senators what I have gone through in the last five weeks. I was not feeling well and I went for a routine visit for a check up only to be told that you must be admitted for COVID-19. I argued that I must go home, pick a book and two. They agreed. However, I was taken home not in my own Mercedes 600 which I am used to, but in an ambulance. I arrived at my house in Karen in an ambulance and my workers were shocked that an ambulance was coming. Together with that, there was a team and whenever I went, there was someone carrying a can of oxygen which I was on. I was admitted and was on oxygen for two-and-a half weeks and was given treatment which affected the underlying causes which I have as an old man of diabetes and high blood pressure. After three weeks, I am glad to tell you that I was discharged, but put on a 14-day quarantine at my residence and that ended on Friday last week. COVID-19 is not something I would wish on anybody. I am supporting this because of the seriousness of this Motion. We have to take COVID-19 seriously. Kenyans are taking it casually. I have been home in the previous two weekends in Busia and I do not know whether I got it there or here. I am suspecting I must have gotten it when I got home two previous weekends and attended many funerals. One day, I attended four funerals and nobody was wearing a mask. When I went to the home of a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly, nobody was wearing a mask apart from myself and maybe you. We looked like strangers and I thought as a gentleman I must remove my mask so that I am just like everybody else. The fact of the matter is, it The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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