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    "id": 1077076,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1077076/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "The third aspect I feel quite strongly is that we need to have an irreducible minimum as a nation. It is important for our sovereignty and it is important for protecting areas we care most about. My irreducible minimum, which can vary among various people, is that in a period of COVID-19, which is going to be with us, as we can all see, for some time to come, we should secure what it takes to be able to ride out the COIVD-19 impact. One of them is vaccines. I get quite desponded when they talk about vaccines, the first thing you hear by the managers in charge of the task force on COVID-19, for example, is that they have got a donation from a particular country or they have a donation from a UN Agency, fairly small donations that are not going to make the impact we expect to get immunity that everybody talks about when we get sufficiently many people who have been vaccinated or have been sick and have survived so that the impact of additional infections is reduced somewhat, as they say. This irreducible minimum is that we ought to fund our vaccine requirement, for example, in this period of COVID-19, and we only un-fund it from our resources when we get those donations. But first and foremost, the first shilling in it should come from our revenue. How do we do that? We do that by putting off some of our large projects even just for a year. We will find that there is enough money there that can guarantee the purchase of vaccines subject to their availability on the world market. But we are not going to depend on countries doing us a favour in an area that is so critical."
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