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    "id": 1083910,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1083910/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "As we speak here, many of us, including myself have lost very close family relatives, friends. Personally among the first 10 deaths in the country was my own brother and many others. I have a feeling that the Government has not been handling this COVID-19 issue well. We have had situations when lockdowns have been effected and curfews imposed. However, when you lock down areas like the counties where we come from in the west, like Migori, Homa Bay, Kisumu, Kericho, Nandi, Bungoma, Busia, Kakamega and Trans Nzoia, one would think that you would lock down an area to carry out mass vaccinations; or that you would close down an area for a reason that helps in controlling the pandemic. However, when you go to these areas, the lockdown is a field day for the police. I was at home over the weekend and I noted that every evening you see a group of policemen walking with women who they have arrested for selling vegetables at ten minutes past 7.00 p.m. They arrest them and walk with them up to midnight. They go on arresting many other people that they meet on the way and walk with them as if they want people to keep them company. That is not the way to go. One would have expected mass testing in the areas under lockdown to see the extent to which people are infected. Right now, we are told some vaccines are in hospitals out there but people are not going for them simply because nobody is telling people publicly and repeatedly the dangers of this disease, where the vaccines are and how to go and get them. There is also such wild propaganda out there that the Government is doing nothing to dispel. Some people are having a field day cheating people that if you are vaccinated you automatically become impotent and young people are not interested in losing their potency. The Government is not fighting these rumours. We have just come from the USA about three or four weeks ago. I was there with a few other Senators. The USA has vaccinated 137 million people so far. China has vaccinated one billion people so far. India is getting there. Today, the BBC announced that the United Kingdom is going to open up their country; there will be no restrictions of entry into the United Kingdom because of their control measures and the success of the vaccinations. Here in Kenya, we have vaccinated about only one million people, representing 2 percent of our population. It shows that we are not taking this pandemic very seriously and yet crowning that is the massive and monstrous frauds on COVID-19 that have gone on at KEMSA. Instead of people fighting the pandemic, they are seeing it as an avenue and highway for ill-gotten wealth. It is a shame and that is why I support Sen. Khaniri that this House and the public at large, particularly the National Government that controls the largest kitty in the health docket, in collaboration with the counties must go out to tell Kenyans how to avoid this pandemic, how to be vaccinated. We are seeing in some countries that even those who have been vaccinated twice are dying of the disease. As I finish, you saw what one single event in Kisumu on Madaraka Day can do to a country. People threw caution to the wind and interacted as if there is no problem. Now"
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