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    "id": 1275849,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is exactly what we are going through now. Most of you have your Kenya Shilling account and others have got the Forex account. You have seen if, in the last few weeks, you left your money to be in your shilling account and not in the dollar account, by the time you swing back, you have lost a lot of money. Therefore, this becomes an exceptional circumstance. Another exceptional circumstance is in the event of an epidemic. When I was a young man in medical school at the University of Nairobi, we were taught by Prof. Pamba about pandemics and epidemics and it used to look purely academic until just three years ago when we all lived through the COVID-19 problem. These things do happen. You can see that I was in medical school over 20 years ago. I had never seen this kind of thing when I was being taught at medical school. I thought it was just theory, but it came to pass. So, this law anticipates that eventuality. We have negative climatic change. You know that we are just coming out of the longest drought period. The fact that it happened means it can happen again and force the Cabinet Secretary for Finance to treat it as an exceptional circumstance to force him to borrow. The internal conflict leading to civil strife can be a cause of this kind of problem. With the bad manners of some Hon. Members not in this House but at other levels, putting sufurias on their heads, it can move into an internal strife. So, we want to anticipate this and as we do that we want to urge our sufuria wielding leaders in this country to realize that the answer lies in growing our Gross Domestic Product (GDP)."
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