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    "id": 983836,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting this Motion in the amended form and that is necessary. I agree with my colleagues that we cannot just shut down Parliament when there is a crisis. This is because there is the need for people to hear from Parliament. Maybe we are the right House to have that kind of amendment because the other House is more at risk than us. Having a crowd of 347 Members is not easy. At least the 67 Members can be here after two weeks. We should take the risk of being around to speak to issues as we assist the country to move through this difficult situation. Mr. Speaker Sir, the issue of the COVID-19 has really hit the world. We are also being affected, not just in the medical field, but also the social area. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend the Uasin Gishu County Response Team meeting. When I went for that meeting, I discovered more things that they had never talked about earlier. Earlier in the morning, I had gone to give my condolences to a family in the neighbourhood that had tents all over preparing for a burial today. We discovered that the public is not conscious about what is going on. When we had a press release after our meeting, it was nice to hear the County Commissioner make a ruling that funerals and marriages will be limited to smallest populations possible. They should just include the next of kin and be done as fast as possible, so that the contact between people is reduced. I think we really need to speak to the public to obey these kind of rules. If they do not obey, then we will have a major crisis arising from the spread. Currently we do not even know who has spread what. 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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