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    "id": 983685,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "messages, to approve the 15 Members we require for you to gazette, and we will come back. We do not need to be stringent that we must see each other face to face to sign for our coming. We can use technology to proceed with the convening of this House. Once we come here, we will make the necessary decision for us to take our country forward. We must also keep in mind that we cannot sleep on this matter because we are not coming back after a month so that we break. We must put measures in place that when we come back within the next one month, we will continue working in the circumstances. We all know that is not necessarily easy to imagine that within one month we will have solved this problem. We know very well that in the State of Washington in the United States of America (USA) a company has started trials for a vaccine on this issue. They have said that it will take up to 18 months to possibly get a proper vaccine that might solve this problem. This means that in the next 18 months to two years, or even up to the next general elections, we will could handle a situation where social contact will have to be dealt with. So, we will come back in a month and ask ourselves how we will continue with public engagement with our voters? How will we continue our public meetings with our citizens? Gov. Oparanya yesterday announced in Kakamega that because funerals are part of public gatherings, and because of space in the mortuaries and handling of bodies and crowding of people, burials will be confined to family members and must be done immediately without waiting for a longer period of time. It might change completely, I saw the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom saying that it is unbelievable that in times of peace, human life and human contact is going to be changed completely. We must go and think about this and come back after a month--- It might even be required that we have a law to determine what to do with a person who will want to deliberately spread such a virus, or after finding out that he might be having this virus, goes ahead to hide from the authorities and makes it difficult for us to establish who is the next person or people who might need our help. There are so many things that may require the law, policy or just giving ideas to the Executive at the national and county level to take this country forward. This is the time for cooperating and not taunting each other. It is not a time for spreading fear. Someone said that a leader is a dealer in hope. Our responsibility now is not to tell people that we will die by tomorrow; we must spread hope. Human race has been faced by similar challenges. There was a time when people were dealing with Smallpox or SARS. So, it is up to us, as leaders, find a solution and ways of cooperating. We must not fear, but be careful to ensure that we take this country forward. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I beg to move this Motion and request the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. James Orengo, to second. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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