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    "id": 992718,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, the House adopts the Fourth and Fifth Progress Reports of the Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 Situation in Kenya, laid on the Table of the Senate on Tuesday, 5th May, 2020 and on Tuesday, 12th May, 2020 respectively. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we presented the Fifth Report today and had presented the Fourth Report last week. These are two Reports and I will just touch on a few things. By the time we were concluding the Fourth Report, we had held 37 sittings and gone into another thematic area. The Fourth Report was just a background of where we had reached; it was an update. The Fifth Report is really the one on the second thematic area on economic and finance issues. There are some milestones that we have been able to achieve in the Third and Fourth Reports, based on the interactions we have had with different agencies. One example is with the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA). Truck drivers had raised some concerns. Based on our interactions, we made sure that their issues are resolved, especially on the issues of licensing. They are unable to physically go to the offices to get these licenses. In addition to that, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government stopped detaining persons who had been caught flouting the rules. They were detaining them in quarantine facilities and we said it is improper. There is no provision in the law where you quarantine somebody for going against the Public Health Act or Regulations. The Inspector-General (IG) was asked to create a place where law enforcement can be done properly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we had noticed that there was criminalisation of quarantine. When you associate quarantine facilities with people who have broken the law, then Kenyans who would ideally even take themselves to quarantine facilities or self-quarantine for suspecting their status, would not want to go there. This criminalisation is what was also building to the stigmatisation. That is another milestone that we achieved by that time. Additionally, we met the National Council for Administration of Justice (NCAJ). Through our interactions, they have started e-filing, as well as digitisation of the courts, and now the court sessions are being held virtually. On top of that, we connected them with one of the transport providers, SWVL, who have been providing free transportation for our frontline medical workers. Following meetings with the Cabinet Secretary responsible for Trade and Transportation---"
}