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    "id": 988819,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "careers. I thank the Committee that they are already on it and we expect that that matter will be solved amicably. I join the rest who are saying that the fight against COVID-19 in our counties has not been felt. One of those counties is Bomet. I was asking them what they have received from the national Government and they told me that they had only received a thermometer gun worth Kshs6,000, yet we hear the Government is spending almost Kshs1billion every day. Where does this money go to? Our oversight in this area should be strengthened so that we may know where taxpayers’ money is going to. I am in the Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Equipment Scheme (MES) where we have sensed a lot of scandals. We are seeing scandals in reality. I am afraid that the way we are conducting things on matters COVID-19, it might also lead us to the same direction that we are wasting taxpayers’ money. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of quarantine, I am against the idea of mixing in the same facilities those who are abusing the directives of the Government with those who are genuine, which has raised a lot of stigmatization and that that is why they are running away. In fact, I talked to the one who was followed up to Kericho-Bomet boarder who had run away from the quarantine facility. He told me that the quarantine facilities are so dangerous because people are not observing social distancing. These facilities are congested. They are bathing in one place. It is easier for one to be COVID-19 positive in those facilities. That is why they are running away."
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