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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "do a lockdown. If you look at the level of taxes that have gone down, no government would want to reduce how much money it is collecting. No government would want to restrict trade. When we were doing the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) the other day, we considered the projected economic growth, which is very low and what has happened in the last financial year. Therefore, that tells you that these are desperate times. The number of deaths has increased. We have lost friends. In fact, tomorrow, I am burying a friend, Antonio Letting, in Kitale. We have lost many friends over the past few days. In fact, it is no longer news. These days you wait and hear who has died today. These measures needed to be taken. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is unfortunate - and I have heard certain colleagues saying because our Standing Orders are clear - Standing Order 100 says that a Member must be responsible for a statement of fact. Nowhere in the President's statement did he direct Parliament. The President did not direct Parliament. He cannot direct Parliament and he did not. On top of saying with the concurrence of the Speakers, he asked that the Houses then take cue and use their procedures to consider an adjournment and that is what we are doing. People like to come to throw stones sometimes at the President, but we cannot allow that because that is not what he did. We saw our Speakers there; I do not think they were being told off. However, even in this House, we have lost friends. We have lost Members in the National Assembly. We have lost many people. What we need to be talking about at this point is; how do we, as leaders, play our part in ensuring that the common mwananchi is safeguarded at this point? There are many areas that we need to look at. Madam Temporary Speaker, as we speak today, I am dealing with almost 4000 Nairobians evicted in Njiru quarry in the ongoing demolitions during a pandemic. When you talk to those people and try to commiserate, they ask you which kind of Government is it that is evicting us at this point? We need to be able to have our committees to look into that issue. That is why I like Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko’s amendment. We need to look at those demolitions in Njiru, in Kasarani Constituency, in Nairobi County. We need to look at these people who have been in the hospitality industry, the taxi drivers, the bouncers and the disc jockeys; they need to be cushioned. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to inform the House - I know my time is going - as I finish, the Bill that we did last year, the Pandemic Response and Management Bill is still very much needed. It has been republished and it has taken---"
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