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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the Petition by the citizens of Kisumu County. While I do so, I think we are failing as a country. I say this with a lot of information because I am a Member of the Senate Committee on Health. This issue of COVID-19 has become a business which is being reserved for a few. People are making money while others are dying because they do not give a hoot in hell about the lives of many people. When we talk about the Indian variant, it really shocks me that while the Ministry of Health knows very clearly that there are different ways that COVID-19 mutates, they are restricting themselves to a particular testing method. There is no way we are going to be able to solve this problem and help the situation in this country if we will be conservative and just focus on a particular area. We are restricting the importation of vaccines to the Government and the Government cannot handle it. So, there is no way that we will help those citizens. Let us not kid ourselves because even if today that Petition is committed to our Committee, we will definitely do the work that is supposed to be done. We will summon the Ministry of Health. The Cabinet Secretary come and tell us that the numbers are rising, but we will not solve the problem of COVID-19. This is what we need to do. Moving on from today, every company that has got a huge workforce must be forced to invest in COVID testing equipment. There are these rapid tests. There is another one called WAMA from Brazil which tests the S, N and E proteins which is how the COVID-19 mutates. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know you will commit this Petition to our Committee on Health. However, unless this Senate and every single Senator who sits here takes this matter of COVID-19 as a personal issue, there is no way we will help those people. I really sympathize with the people of Kisumu, but unless we take certain steps to ensure that we allow even private companies to import vaccines, we will not solve this problem. We must now start thinking outside the box."
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