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    "id": 989461,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I must commend the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health and the Ministry of Health for the splendid job they are doing of managing the national anxiety resulting from the the Coronavirus pandemic. She has given a good flowing Statement which in many cases would probably be called a theoretical framework. But the reality on the ground is completely different. I speak for Busia County and I can tell her categorically that, as of today morning, any test related to Coronavirus is being conduct in KEMRI, Kisumu. The so called KEMRI in Busia is just an empty shell probably even not worth the name. We have a medical system that cannot even test malaria. I wonder why they would mislead the Committee that they have the ability to test. Most of the selected isolation centres in Busia are schools which are in very bad and deplorable state. I really wonder how well prepared the country and counties are in respect to managing the pandemic. As I conclude, in respect of this matter, I want to speak on the issue of forced quarantine. Hon. Speaker and the Chair, I can assure you that we will stigmatise people. The purpose of mass testing will be defeated because all the people who would go for mass testing will hide and decline to be tested. This will be on the ground of the consequences that follow, the so-called international protocol which has stigmatised the process. This is to the extent that you are plucked from your family and taken to live in very deplorable conditions. Your many family members are also stigmatised. So, the first thing which you should do and I request you to pass this over to the Cabinet Secretary, is that he needs to start…"
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