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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "This is a grave matter. The two distinguished lady Senators have brought important Statements. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared this virus a global emergency. What any responsible country would do is to evacuate Kenyans from the area of danger back to our country. This is what other countries are doing; Australia and Malaysia have done that. The European countries are also doing that. It was disheartening to hear our distinguished Ambassador to China saying that we need prayers. Prayers are good, but this is not a matter that we should look for divine intervention; we need physical intervention. Kenya Airways is still flying to China every day. They can take one or two plane loads of our students and any other Kenyans living in China and bring them back and stop Kenyans from going to China just like Australia has stopped its nationals from going to China until it is declared free of this virus. Sometimes persons that have been given responsibility to run our public affairs let our country down. I do recall when there were xenophobic attacks on Kenyans in South Africa, yours truly here, then in charge of the Ministry quickly mobilized facilities with the direction and support of former President Kibaki and we evacuated Kenyans to safe areas. We bought tickets for those who wanted to come back home, and brought them to safety. This is something that the Government must do as soon as is practically possible because exposing any single Kenyan to danger is exposing all Kenyans to danger. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was amused the other day when I was coming from Eldoret on a local flight landing at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA); when I walked out of the plane, I saw some hooded character standing there with a gadget trying to take peoples temperatures as a measure of checking whether they have the virus or not. How ridiculous! I told the fellow that what you are doing is extremely unhelpful. There is no evidence that there is Corona virus in Eldoret where I was coming from and taking my temperature will not tell you whether I have the virus or not. That is very simplistic indeed and we need to style up in the manner that we run our public affairs. Thank you."
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