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    "id": 1059624,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. I support the Motion by the Senate Deputy Majority Leader for reasons that she gave. We can reduce our physical interactions to one day a week, Tuesday’s morning and afternoon. This is so that we can join the Government and other Kenyans in trying to bring awareness to the people of our country on the dangers of COVID-19 pandemic. I urge the leadership on the majority side, led by Sen. Dullo who is present, that the Sen. Sakaja led ad hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya did a fantastic job in bringing regular weekly updates to this House on the country’s response and awareness on COVID-19. I must say that that ad hoc Committee did a commendable job. For reasons that we know and understand, Sen. Sakaja left the Committee and it came into the hands of Sen. Kasanga. We want to see that Committee’s life resurrect and extended so that we get regular updates on COVID -19. That Committee should be a nexus between this House and the Ministry of Health. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Statistics are being churned out; some correct and others incorrect. We need clear firsthand information flow so that we know how the people we represent are faring. Yesterday, Sen. Wako, told me his story and brush with near death from COVID- 19. There are many more who have had such brushes with COVID-19. Sen. Wako was lucky because many others have died. I lost a brother at the beginning of this pandemic. We have lost many more people. On Sunday, I went to the Lang’ata Cemetery to bury a National Executive Council (NEC) of my party from Moyale. The number of people being buried on the same day for the same reasons was shocking. We need to hold the Government both at the national and county levels to account. Money was sent to counties for COVID-19 yet no county is able to account properly for it. I have been asking for evidence of how it was utilized in my county, but there is nothing to show for it. Many other counties cannot show anything for it too. This is money that governors just converted into personal use and they start using it for self-aggrandizement and doing things that are not helpful to the people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we lost a Member of Parliament (MP) for Matungu Constituency simply because there was no oxygen at Mumias Health Centre and yet the Governor of Kakamega County is busy on grandiose movements all over trying to display nonexistent success that he says he has performed in the county."
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