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    "id": 984182,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to make my remarks on this important matter. I want to go straight to the issues of quarantine and curfew. Without debating the illegality or legality of the curfew, which is in court, it is not possible to have a one-fit-all solution. A curfew that is applicable in Nairobi is not applicable in Mandera or Migori, where we have poor widows who are looking after their families. They sell fish that is only purchased between 6.00 p.m. and 9.00 p.m. They do not have savings or anything to eat, yet we are imposing a curfew on them. They have children who are crying and orphans that they look after. Migori and most counties in Nyanza depend on fishing, which is done at night. I think about the person who suggested about a curfew for the nation. What activities do people do at night that bring crowds? Is it sex or what? If we can identify these activities and outlaw them, we might as well allow other people who are doing lawful activities and can keep sufficient social distance to operate. You cannot just lock people down and prevent them from doing the things that feed them and hope that they will cooperate. I am foreseeing a situation where after five or ten days, we will have people killing the police. We do not want to deal with one problem that is likely to escalate to another. Therefore, the Committee that we are putting together must find a mechanism of urging the national Government to engage counties. They should find out the kind of curfews that can work in each county, so that we do not have one blanket curfew covering Lodwar to Lunga Lunga or Wajir to Busia. We must protect lives and livelihoods of our people, or we will deal with angry people."
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