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    "id": 1083994,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1083994/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 827,
        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Government has also been spending money on COVID-19 related issues for a long time. However, for some of us, it is a mystery because we do not know the activities that the Government is spending money on. The only thing we know is that when they got money the first time, there was the issue of KEMSA which became a scandal and nobody want to talk about it. It was supposed to have been procurement of PPEs and masks so that members of the public could be protected. However, that did not go anywhere. There was a case of Kshs270 billion at the beginning where counties were given Kshs6 billion and the rest was kept by the national Government. We do not know what it is doing with it. We have only seen one lockdown after the other in the whole country, in the five counties around Nairobi and now it is in the lake region. That is the only thing they are doing. The Government is supposed to create an environment to enable Kenyans to go back to their normal lives just the way other countries have done. They should have invested all the money in vaccination instead of relying on donations. It is as if we do not have our own money, but we have been borrowing. The latest borrowing from International Monetary Fund (IMF) was COVID-19 related, but nothing has been done. So, it is time the Government takes it seriously. We do not have to assume that COVID-19 pandemic will go away on its own. The Government has to put its resources and time to make sure that all Kenyans are vaccinated. It is only when we have immunity that we can go back to our normal daily activities of national building and earn our livelihoods. Right now, many people are out of jobs and the curfew is still on, but the Government is not doing anything. While we were subjected to these measures, the Government should be doing something in terms of vaccination, providing the necessary protection and developing the health facilities so that Kenyans can now live with this world-wide pandemic. We have to protect ourselves against it. Unfortunately, we are not seeing anything like that being done by this Government. I urge the Government that whatever funds they are spending should be used in buying vaccines so that Kenyans can get vaccinated instead of waiting for donations while we are wasting the money we are getting. Some of it is loans which we will have to pay yet we are not using it for the intended purpose."
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