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    "id": 980833,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/980833/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 124,
        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "What must Kenyans do? Obviously, all points of entry must be under very strict and severe surveillance. I have not seen anything, other than the periodic check at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and possibly at the Moi International Airport, but I should see some rigorous checks even at all the entry points, whether from Uganda or Tanzania. This is because you do not know whether these people from China could have gone to Dar es Salaam and then they exit, coming to Kenya or through other routes. We must secure these routes for the safety of Kenyans. Secondly, we must also ensure that every person who travels to and from China is under a watch list and is quarantined. The only interesting part of it is that after two weeks, if you are able to put them in a quarantine, we should have facilities at the airport or we should set aside one of the hospitals for purposes of putting them aside so as to manage them. I am already laying a foundation as to why we must take that position. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having laid that foundation, it is only logical that given this kind of a situation, then we must bring back our people because we now have the facilities in place. They check into those centers, they are checked and if they have no virus, they are kept in that quarantine for two weeks and are properly fed. It should not be the kind of story I listened to last night, and I became sick, because it is very worrying. We just seem to helplessly watch what is happening to our citizenry in China. We should now make serious efforts to bring them back and quarantine them, because it is for their good and for the good of this country. That will show that, one, we have become a responsible country for our own citizens; and two, that we are able to take care of them because we now know what we do with the Corona Virus. That is because we have handled the SARS Virus before without any difficulty. We should then detain them here in our centers and watch out for them. I was very disappointed that there was some engineer who just sneaked through, went to Kitui, and they are following him there. If there is any damage done, it has already been done. That must not be the kind of language or stories that we want to hear; that he has no Corona Virus. I think the measure and ability of this nation to mount a surveillance system is within hand. We have enough trained manpower that can, with a flick of a second, be trained to run this system efficiently. This is because we have done that before and can do it again. In terms of manpower, we are capable. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my take on this matter is that the country must wake up. We must bring back Kenyans, quarantine them if need be and get them to a safe place. We need to monitor and secure our boarders and our airports for the safety of this nation. I thank you."
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