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    "id": 991034,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I take this opportunity to thank the Government for sensitising people at the start of this pandemic, for the press conferences they have been holding and alerting people. In the absence of that, the issue would have gotten out of hand. As a House, we have a constitutional responsibility to oversee the Government. The Government has failed in many ways that Kenyans did not expect. The fight against the Coronavirus pandemic must have a human face. It cannot be that the Government has not suspended the Constitution and neither has Parliament. I cannot overemphasise the issue of police brutality as has been said by the leaders. There is no country in the world that has reported more cases of death through police brutality than Kenya. This pandemic is an equaliser. It is happening all over the globe. Our police force cannot behave like goons in uniform. They have been properly trained to protect the lives and property of Kenyans. That is how they earn a living unless they have instructions to engage in brutality. Secondly, this Government has not done anything tangible other than announcing numbers every day at 3 O’clock. The Government could not afford to give its citizens masks which are worth Kshs3 leave alone food. The masks are Kshs20. Members of Parliament are buying masks for people in their constituencies. We were told that there would be free sanitisers. We were told that the Kenya Pipeline Company would produce alcohol-based sanitisers. Coronavirus is almost ending. They have washed their hands off it and now they are washing their legs. We have not seen any free sanitiser in our constituencies. It cannot be business as usual and we keep quiet. We have a constitutional mandate to represent the people. We have sovereign power. The Government is unable to feed or give free masks and sanitisers to its people. What else can they do? We will not allow the Government to contact trace people who have Coronavirus in their homes, force them into quarantine and expect them to pay for their upkeep. The Government must pay for the upkeep of people in quarantine who they have traced through their contacts. If somebody has broken the law, you can quarantine him."
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