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    "id": 494538,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/494538/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
        "slug": "dalmas-otieno"
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My contribution will be very brief. First of all, as a country, we intend to be a transport hub for the entire continent. If you look at the amount of traffic that gets into Dubai, there is no reason why we do not get that traffic coming into Kenya. It means on an issue like Ebola, we have to be prepared all the time and health facilities at the port have to be funded properly. It is time we sponsored a global resolution through World Health Organization (WHO) so that anybody travelling is tested for Ebola in the simplest way possible so that when he arrives at the place, there is some indication that Ebola is not there. If we are going to continue to wait until five or six people die in any one country and then the rest of the world swings into motions scaring everybody else, that is not a good global strategy that is sustainable for a long time. Just like Yellow Fever used to be treated, we should classify Ebola as a global disaster which has to be screened continuously and nobody should be leaving his country to any other country by air, road or rail without having been certified as free of this dangerous disease that we have. For our part as a country, we should be able to include the Ebola symptoms also in the category of diseases which all our children in secondary schools should be able to identify. I am thinking in terms of why we should be able to identify this disease early enough."
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