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    "id": 983680,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/983680/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "must think quickly on how to grant tax breaks to especially small companies, so that they can continue operating, employ people and supporting the economy. Banks must continue to give concessionary loans at low rates to small business. The forcefully enforcement of repayment of loans could--- Possibly, we could have a discussion between the Central Bank and the commercial banks to suspend that, so that most businesses that are not in operation now, particularly those that are providing services, could be given a break, so that they can repay their loans later cumulatively. We must think about how we will refund Value Added Tax (VAT) and assist small businesses, like it has been done in other parts of the world. All these efforts must be made to ensure that the economy continues to thrive even at this very difficult time, even as we think through how best we can come back to continue assisting members of the public. This pandemic is not easy for all of us. We pray that it does not affect any of us who is seated here, and we pray that it is minimized. The Cabinet Secretary will have a press statement shortly and we never know what he will tell the country, but we hope that we can contain it to levels that we will make sure that our health facilities are able to provide health services. We also have the responsibility to take the liberate steps to ensure that we protect the old and those who have been sickly. Let us not sleep on the job. What scares me most is the statistics that he shared from countries like Italy, where for the first one month, it was not more than 10 people who had been infected, and then it began to spiral. My friend who was in Milan, Italy, told a few of us that there was a leakage through a media house that there would be a complete lockdown in Milan and people would not move. Someone leaked that information and as a result, people began to run from Milan to other parts of the country. Once that happened, the catastrophe occurred in that country. I hope that we will manage the movement of people, including our students as they go home from today. I hope that the transport system will be managed in such a way that those who are transporting our children will observe the hygiene standards and take them home, so that we do not have a situation where one infected person in a bus or"
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