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    "id": 190122,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 279,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to support this very important and timely Motion. I would also like to congratulate the Mover of the Motion. It is not by accident that it has been brought by a medical doctor, who understands the problem that we want to deal with. What we have been doing is trying to co-exist with malaria instead of eradicating it; you cannot co- exist with an enemy. If your neighbour is your enemy, you try to look for a way of befriending him, so that you become friends and co-exist, but if you are total enemies you move a way. That is the problem. The policy of our Government is to co-exist with malaria. Its policies include getting people nets for use at night and letting malaria continue spreading. Is that possible? So, the Mover is telling us to change strategy, because the strategy that we have been using is not working. One of the problems that the Government will give us is that we do not have enough money to buy spray. We have money! There is the Global Fund for malaria and Tuberculosis. That money can be invested in the buying of the relevant spray instead of continuing to buy nets that are not user friendly. So, we have the money. That is what I wanted to say from the beginning. If we are able to deal with malaria, we will again succeed in one of our key Millennium Development Goals (MDG). We will have gone a notch higher if we manage to deal with malaria once and for all. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as other hon. Members have said, malaria is second to HIV/AIDS; it is one of the major killers in Africa. You also need to know that because of the global warming, malaria has now spread to the mountain areas, the colder areas, where malaria never used to survive. If you go near Mt. Kenya, people there never knew what malaria was, unless they travelled to Mombasa and other places. There is now malaria in those places because our country is becoming warmer. So, malaria is becoming a bigger problem, and due to climatic changes, it is even going to be a bigger problem. So, the urgency of dealing with it is borne out by that other factor. Why do we want to do away with nets? I have already said that nets tend to tell us that we should co-exist with the enemy. Secondly, nets are cumbersome. When you go to sleep, you want to sleep freely. You want to move around in your bed. So, nets trap you. You cannot express your freedom of movement at night properly. You can imagine when you are under the net and the mosquito is busy making noise just near you. So, sometimes, you have even to wake up because you cannot remember that there is a net protecting you, if the mosquitoes are buzzing near you. So, it is very cumbersome and you cannot enjoy your sleep. So, let us eradicate mosquitoes. You can July 9, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1719 imagine if, for example, you are a \"night walker\"."
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