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"speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to commend Sen. Kwamboka for bringing this timely Statement. Last time, we had a discussion and I thought that the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health should have been updating the House on the issues of the status of COVID-19 pandemic in the country, just like the Council of Governors have been doing, so that they can be telling us the status. I agree with colleagues that in modern countries, they are now administering the booster after the other doses of the vaccination. However, it is unfortunate that the curfew, amongst other containment measures, was done in good faith, but the implementation has been done maliciously. I think the biggest beneficiaries of this curfew are the rogue police officers. I know there are good officers, but the wayward police officers, the criminal ones within the Police Service, have been using the issue of curfew to do the unthinkable. We agree with the containment measures that have been put in place, but there are rogue police officers within the service. You remember the killings of the Kianjakoma brothers. You remember, in Lessos, a police station was burnt after the police killed a motorbike operator for not wearing a mask. We have seen enormous cases where extortion is done in broad daylight because of this curfew. We agree that containment measures should be put in place, but it should not be a license for extortion by rogue police officers. One interesting thing with the curfew is that the police are so efficient when it comes to implementing the curfew, but when you are attacked and you go to a police station, they tell you that there is no fuel. You are told to give them Kshs1,000 or Kshs2,000, so that they can attend to a case of insecurity in a certain place. I saw the Inspector-General of Police engaging Kenyans on Twitter, which is good, but he is yet to answer to the country on the issue of roadblocks Mr. Speaker, Sir, yesterday, I was privileged to be in your county and I can assure you that all is well. However, I still saw police officers on the road. There are many roadblocks next to Webuye. The sad thing is that curfew roadblocks are even being put in the villages and small roads that are used by boda boda . As I was driving through Bungoma, all the way to Eldoret and Nandi, I saw roadblocks. I would like to ask the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations to take up this matter with the IG of Police and ask him what is happening, so that all of us can be safe. Finally, we agree that the night economy has been killed. In the past, you could buy Mutura in those small shops in the evening. Those were people who were making money. There are other businesses that used to be done at night, like carwash and others; these have been affected. The curfew has also affected prayers. Nowadays, you cannot go for Kesha, and yet, we need people to pray, so that COVID-19 can go away. Those are many businesses of the night economy that have been destroyed. Nocturnal activities have been affected greatly. All these things have been---"
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