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    "id": 1233862,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. First, I want to thank Hon. Tindi Mwale for bringing up this Motion, which I have risen to support. Health officers are sleeping on their jobs. As we speak today, they have not told the country the problem that affected those schools. Before I continue, I want to pass my condolences to the families that were affected. Sorry for losing their loved ones. Sometimes, people in this country earn money for not working. The Cabinet Secretary for Health needs to mobilise all doctors in this country to visit the seven schools that have been mentioned adversely with regard to disease outbreak, although they have not mentioned the exact disease itself. That shows the weakness of the public health officers concerned. When something like that happens, the Government takes too long to announce to its citizens that such a problem is there. Closing the schools means we are taking the diseases to all over the country. Students come from all over the country. The students need to be treated. Their blood samples need to be tested to know what kind of disease this was. Is it a case of food poisoning that is caused by aflatoxins? I always visit schools in my constituency and, sometimes, I meet very dirty cooks. That is how we get our students into some of those problems. With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion and thank Hon. Tindi Mwale for raising it. Thank you."
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