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    "id": 986691,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have met with the Council of Governors (CoG) and the County Assemblies Forum (CAF). A lot of gaps have been identified there. I am encouraging Members, even as the card report comes, we want to see what these people have said to us and where they have sought your attention as Senators for your action. We also met with pathologists, officials of the National Influenza Laboratory, Kenya Health Federation, and the Cabinet Secretary for Health who we met on Saturday, 18th April 2020. He addressed many issues that were brought up from this first thematic area. We must commend and support him for the work he is doing. He made several requests to Senators and Members of the National Assembly on where to come in to help, especially on the issue of monitoring and doing legislative duty of making sure that governors are doing what they are supposed to be doing. There are a lot of gaps there because a lot of counties have still not woken up to the response as it should be expected. He highlighted five counties that are doing very well when it comes to pandemic response. We have everything in the report and we have to laud the counties that are doing something about it. I have seen the Senator for Machakos who has posted right now that he does not want truck drivers to stop for long along the highways in Machakos area. This is because truck drivers have been identified as a high-risk group of people. Today, we also met with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and they gave us a lot of information. We now know about tests, we now know what they are doing about research as well as production of various things, including hand sanitizers and quick rapid testing kits. We have learnt a lot and a lot is going on. You would be very proud to be a Kenyan when you know what first line responders are doing. We also met with the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services under the second thematic area. My fellow Senators, I want to go back to the thematic areas that we had highlighted. I cannot stress more on the importance of you following the five thematic areas that we highlighted because that is the way we are engaging with the stakeholders, both Government and private. For matters of health which were very lengthy, we have canvassed quite a bit, we have heard from the Ministry. We are still going back to engage further with other stakeholders in the hope that we shall meet with the Cabinet Secretary. We may also canvass any other issues that may arise as we debate the Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second thematic area was economic and finance issues. We got a lot of views from members of public and from Senators in the Committee. We are looking to engage with the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury and Planning amongst other stakeholders to look forward to see what we can do to cushion Kenyans when it comes to economic issues. Part of the conversation we had with the Cabinet Secretary for Labour, Social Security and Services is that he highlighted what they are doing in the Ministry. When we meet with the CS of the National Treasury and Planning, we are looking forward to engage a little deeper. However, a lot has been canvassed in this thematic area in the Bill. If you read about the issues of taxation, the contentious issue landlords and tenants as well as employers and employees, all that is canvassed in the Bill. It is an area"
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