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    "id": 988140,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to thank the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Health for a very succinct and honest answer. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Health. I was there when this Question was answered. It was answered two or three times because we had it back and forth. We are in times when we are building the ship even as we sail. So, there are lessons to be learnt. Above all, I am happy because the Ministry of Health has honestly accepted that the law was not followed in this situation. This Parliament does not act in vain. We will ensure that where the law is not followed, those who do not follow it will face its full force. That is what we, as a House, must do and ensure that it is done in future. You can get excited about a disease. It is about excitement. People can say that they discovered a disease to shock you. The specimen that showed that the late gentleman was COVID-19 positive was taken after he died. Then 12 hours later, he was buried without a post-mortem. They decided that because of COVID-19 disease, they would not do a post-mortem and they would bury him in a shallow grave. It will shock you that now even deaths that can be explained in other ways are explained using COVID-19 disease. In this situation, this gentleman had an accident in Awassi which is near a police station. However, the Ministry of Health told us that they did not get information about this. They do not know that an accident happened. How do you explain whether the death was because of an accident or COVID-19 disease because COVID-19 disease was discovered after he died? Because there is time constraints, we are living in very difficult times. However, this cannot make us forget our culture, laws and traditions."
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