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    "id": 1062028,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1062028/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13179,
        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute. I want to affirm that COVID-19 is real. The graveyards are filling up quickly. We should be very careful given that we come from different counties. If we continue meeting the way we are doing right now, we could be also super spreaders besides risking our lives. The 26 per cent infection rate is not just a number. Those are people's lives. As we have all noticed, the death rates have increased from one or two deaths to 18 to 24. That should be alarming to anybody who has sense of responsibility for the lives of Kenyans. Madam Deputy Speaker, our President was taking his duty seriously by ensuring that in the counties that have a greater number are locked down for now. I am sure if these infection rates come down and the curve flattens, those five counties will be opened up for business. I was hearing that mama mboga cannot get supplies of mboga. I thought the rules in terms of transport for essential things have not been revised. I did not see it anywhere in the communiqué that was shared in terms of our President’s message. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you go to Lang’ata Cemetery today, you will see the number of graves for the Muslims have increased; so have the Christian graves. Knowing that even most of the Christians, the ones who die in Nairobi are taken to their home counties for burial, but still the number has gone up. I withdraw. Even then, the graveyards are also increasing. That shows the gravity of this matter. Sometime I tend to feel even the people who die of COVID-19; all of them are not in the country’s statistics. Sometimes people assume they died from other ailments, but they still could have died from COVID-19. From the normal time to now, you will see the difference. Even the side that is marked for COVID-19 is totally different from the other side graves are increasing being filled. Madam Deputy Speaker, I heard assertions that the President directed Parliament. I just went back to read his speech. He said with the concurrence with Parliament"
}