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    "id": 1061932,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "the virus away. Apart from this House, Kenyans do not have any other avenue to ask this Government questions about its plans. We must think critically as we make this decision. There must be an intricate balance. I hear those colleagues of us who are urging us to remember we have lost colleagues in this pandemic. It is true, but there are risks for any job. Just like doctors, I believe, would have wished to be with their families like the rest of us, but given that this war is being fought in hospitals with medicine and not with bullets and guns, they are on the frontline. Article 1 of our Constitution provides that the first institution that Kenyans delegate power to even before anybody else is Parliament. Therefore, we speak on behalf of the millions. The people of Kericho are confused and are wondering. There are only 6,000 doses of vaccine that have been sent to Kericho a county that has over one million people. They are looking up to me. What answers will I given them while I am locked in this City and told not to dare to move away? We must balance and think critically. The challenge of leadership is rising up to the occasion in moments of difficulties as this one is being called. When one reads the Supplementary Budget which the National Assembly passed I think last week, Kshs8 billion is being pumped down this thing called Nairobi Expressway. Who is this that is in such a hurry that even in times of pandemic when we should be saving every coin to import vaccines, we are buying steel and cement? Who is in charge of this country? I would wish to meet that person because the things that are being done do not make sense to me as a leader. I am concerned."
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