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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni (",
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    "content": "what the national Government is going to do, then we are losing the battle against Covid-19. There is an example of a county which, to-date, has received only 15 sets of personal protective kits, 10 overalls, 200 pieces of surgical masks, 1,000 pieces of N95 masks and 230 packets of surgical gloves. If those are the kinds of things that they are sending to the county governments, we are losing this battle. I have not been a supporter of the way the county governments manage their funds but, they are the ones who can help us get to the people. They are nearest to the people. They have the infrastructure that would enable us to know who are starving, who require medical attention and where they need to intervene quickly so that we reduce the pain that Kenyans are going through. We should be very careful. We should not reduce funding to the county governments. Secondly, the Departmental Committees ought to wake up. I know we are going into a Committee of the whole House, and I will say the same. If you are not overseeing, let us ask questions. Do not ask us to come here and pass funny reports. In as much as it is a matter of mitigation on the spread of Covid-19, the arrangement of having only 62 Members sitting in the Chamber at any given time is not good. We must look for a way of resuming normalcy. As it is, a sitting of the National Assembly looks like a press conference where a few people talk, we okay the Bills and move on. I know that we have to abide by the Covid-19 guidelines, but let us look for ways of getting back to normalcy as quickly as possible. We need to talk to the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders to help us get there. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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