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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "appreciate this because we may not be fully conversant with some of the areas and we are happy to be guided by the public. I want to let you know that in each of the five thematic areas, the Secretariat and ourselves, were able to further segment those areas. Therefore, there is need that you, as Senators, to be seized of each one of them. For example, under the health thematic area, we have information and data, universal access, issues of community health and testing, which has been a very big issue that we need a lot of clarity on. We have infection, prevention, control and personal protective equipment, which is another area where many people are raising very good ideas on how to deal with these issues over and above the fact that we already have local manufacturing going on. As a House and for posterity, how then will we make sure that we put some of these efforts for posterity? We secure our people who are able to do some of these things now and for the future. No doubt, from our research, we have seen that the pandemic is a global issue that all countries are grappling with and our underbellies globally are being exposed for lack of preparedness when it comes to pandemics. Of course, for us in this country, considering economic issues, the country was already struggling with many Kenyans struggling economically even before the COVID- 19. With the COVID-19, we have to look very critically into the proposals that the public has given us on how to deal with the economic issues facing Kenyans. How will we rise above this pandemic considering that even before that we were grappling with ourselves? Senators, I am drawing your attention to that. There are a number of issues such as taxation with many good ideas coming up from different stakeholders and individuals who have knowledge on how to deal with such issues. They have come up with very good recommendations. As a Committee, we shall isolate some of these recommendations and put the questions to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) and the National Emergency There is a lot of debate going on regarding economic issues, for example, if there is a lockdown, how will it be dealt with? We want to partner with the Executive on some of the issues. That is why today, we were disappointed when the CS did not come. We wanted to address the health issues and then move on to the economic issues which are quite substantive."
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