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    "id": 1122348,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to suggest that we stick to our protocols of COVID-19. I want to give this House a personal experience. I am fully vaccinated and my wife was fully vaccinated. But she ended up getting COVID-19 from our daughter. Things were very terrible for her despite having been vaccinated. This is not an issue to just imagine. This is a very serious issue. Latvia has vaccinated 80 per cent of her population, but this week, Latvia has gone on lockdown because the disease is within the community. The most serious part of opening up this Chamber is that we have our colleagues who are now fully vaccinated, we have rallies over the weekend and then on Monday and Tuesday, we are in this Chamber where we are not even sure of ventilation. Makau here is sweating the whole afternoon because the aircon is not working. We must maintain our full COVID-19 protocols. Let us not trivialise this issue. If you look at the statistics in the country right now, we have just vaccinated less than 5 per cent of Kenyans. We Members of Parliament (MPs) are interacting with those members of the public over the weekends. Kenyans are still dying of COVID-19. There are statements that may look obviously popular but we should not look popular anymore when we are dealing with the oath Members took, let alone the leadership of the country which is the National Assembly. We must show the country that we still maintain COVID-19 protocols so that Kenyans can follow them too. Hon. Duale, you are my friend but we cannot agree on this one. If you look at this Chamber right now, we have seats that are reserved for MPs to come and debate here, but they are not here. The seats are empty. What are we trying to show Kenyans? The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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