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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also thank Sen. Khaniri for bringing this Statement. COVID-19 pandemic is real whether Kenyans want it or not. The reality is that Kenyans from the top to the bottom are not very serious. We are here talking about how serious this issue is, but when we leave, we all indulge ourselves in other things. Most of the Members in this House and the leadership of all political parties in this country have been misbehaving from day one. Let me say the way things are if you do not want to say the truth, then all of us are going to die. The fact of the matter is that the leadership of this country is not serious when it comes to COVID-19 pandemic. We were just told as if it was a press conference that “Ten people died. Twenty are like this.” That will not help this country. From there, everybody goes and there are super spreaders everywhere. The latest was just recently, over the weekend in Nakuru. It is happening every day. How are we going to stop the spread of COVID-19 when our leadership wants to show themselves to the public, to boda bodas and mama mbogas? They want 200 bodabodas riding with them? This is not right and fair. I think the leadership have to look into these issues and stop for once. When we say that we have banned these things, then meetings should stop. As has been stated here, and everybody knows the facts of the matter, many of us have once got COVID-19, but nobody wants to say it. We are hiding it. I congratulate the Attorney General Emeritus for coming out about it during the National Prayer Breakfast. Everybody should come out and say it. If I am afraid to say that I got COVID-19, what will happen to ordinary Kenya when he gets it? Every Member who got it should come out and tell the people how serious it is and what he underwent. If you do not want to come out and say it, how do you expect the stigma that Sen. M. Kajwang' talked about to end? This was how HIV/AIDs scourge started in the 1980s, and nobody wanted to talk about it. There is nothing to hide about COVID-19 pandemic. The other one was related to promiscuity, but this one is coming from the air. This is just common cold, which has become a problem because of the way it is as a super-spreader. We do not want to talk about it in the churches. People in the mosques and churches want to sit next to each other without wearing masks. Every day we want to hold public rallies, where even the leadership do not want to wear masks. When we go to funerals, we do not want to wear masks, even when we know the person died of COVID- 19 and we do not want to talk about it. How are we going to stop this thing? Let us stop"
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