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    "speaker_name": "Lari, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jonah Mwangi",
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    "content": "countries like Germany. I can even offer myself to go to Germany and fundraise for them. I am sure I will come back with another 200,000 doses of vaccine to Kenya for free. Therefore, the Ministry of Health should try and work harder. I saw the Ministry lining up the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to talk about tuberculosis while we are in COVID-19 time. The Ministry was talking about how the USA is donating a lot of money for tuberculosis and all that. I am thinking that our priority today is COVID-19 and the Ministry should mobilise their team. We need a team to go to Dubai to private institutions, another team to Germany and another team to Russia so as to look for funds. Being a Third World country, it will take a very short time to see 50 million doses of vaccine here in Kenya for free. We will be able to vaccinate almost the whole population once we have vaccines donated by the rich institutions of the world. I am sure that can happen in the next three or four months. On the other issue about the President's directive, I am happy for our President and the way he acted because we do not want to be referred to as one of the countries that ignored science and suffered because it ignored science. I am also happy that he did not put a timeline so that he can change some few things here and there. I am asking the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government to push the population to adhere to the Ministry of Health guidelines. We need to see everybody in a mask. We need to see burials attended by few people. Like now, I am happy because chiefs are making sure that burials in Lari Constituency are not attended by more than 50 people. We do not want to see burials having 200 people or having people preaching for three hours or politicians speaking for four hours. I will be happy if chiefs and the administration can maintain those guidelines. Those gatherings are avenues through which Kenyans contract COVID-19. The President did not put a timeline for lockdown and so we are affected as counties. Kiambu is affected. I hope those roadblocks sooner or later will ease passage of people. People travelling in matatus should have their masks on and public service vehicles should follow the health guidelines . I hope sooner or later - so that we do not suffer so much economically – the lockdown will be eased. The Government should make sure that police and members of the public follow the guidelines. Installation of CCTV cameras would deter people from committing crimes. As I finish, police should come out before the 8.00 O'clock curfew time, so that people can see their presence and go home. This will be better than going around arresting people who then contract COVID-19 in the cells of Kamukunji and all the other places. With those few remarks, I again support the Motion and thank you Hon. Speaker."
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