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    "id": 991925,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "I am a product of opportunities since 2013 and I am still learning. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to second this Bill. I had mentioned earlier that it is a special day. In 1820, one lady called Florence Nightingale was born on this day 12th May 2020. She was an English social reformer, a statistician and founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence managing nurses during the Crimean War and gave the nursing profession status and she was an icon during the Victorian culture. Apart from my daughter, Emily Sakaja, who was born today and turns one-year- old. As I said, Florence Nightingale who was born in 1820, it is a special day and it is International Nurses Day. It is very poetic that on this International Nurses Day, we are moving a Bill on a pandemic where our nurses have come out as the frontline of defense and are doing an amazing job. We pray that God may continue to bless our nurses, doctors, lab technicians and all those other Kenyans who are working tirelessly putting their lives on the line as we fight Coronavirus. A pandemic is not a normal occurrence. In fact, there is no one listening to my voice across the country or in this House who was alive when there was another global pandemic of this nature in 1920. Because of that, the Committee that this House saw fit to establish felt that it is important for us to have a special legislative framework on how to deal with a pandemic. During a pandemic, it is not business as usual; it cannot be business as usual. That is why some of the proposals that we have put here might look controversial, but it is not usual times. During a pandemic, certain luxuries have to be forfeited. It has a huge impact on the economy. We are already feeling the pinch at individual level and as a country."
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