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    "content": "Hon. Members, the advice from the Public Health Directorate is to encourage as many Members and staff as possible to go for voluntary testing. If you test positive, then you go into isolation. It is only in those circumstances that you will not be allowed here. Of course, we know that there are Members from those other three counties that have been locked down. That is Mombasa, Kilifi and Kwale. However, - and I do not want to provide any information that I may have - I know some of them have been very robust in communicating and posting their results. At least, I know. I have been following. In the last few weeks, I have also learnt that many of them do not sleep early - not least Hon. Peter Kaluma and several others. They have something they call “the night shift team” but I am very happy and proud of the work that they have been doing. I believe once we start business, the House and the country will be richer by some of the issues that they have raised. They will be able to share them with all of us. I do not want to begin asking every Member… We have not even started business. Remember that there are some of your colleagues who are out there in the holding rooms and they also have a right to come and contribute to any of the issues that are being debated. So, I plead with all of us that if we could… If I start requiring everybody to start producing their medical certificates, then we may have to adjourn, go to the gate and ask people to provide them. My assumption is that the Members are fully aware of that advice from the Directorate of Public Health. I want to believe that. I do not want to say which of the Members, but I know many of them have been posting their negative results from very authoritative sources. I think they were doing it out of their own volitions. They were not compelled. It may not require anybody to begin doing it publicly. The important thing is that we are all advised that, that is the way we should operate given these prevailing circumstances. So, if I do not ask the Member for Nyali, Member for Kilifi North and Member for Mvita… If we allow each one of you to address that issue, you may start asking whether Hon. Chris Wamalwa also has his certificate and then we will be in a very difficult situation. Maybe, we would have to go to the Ministry to get all of us certified. We will have no reason to believe that another person has not tested positive. Let us not be suspicious. Let us encourage one another, including Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose. There is nothing wrong with Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose attending the Sitting. In fact, I know several other Members who have requested me that they would want to come and give their contributions but, unfortunately, we had to limit the numbers to the ones that we have now. So, can we do business? Next Order."
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