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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Seeing that there are several other reasons in terms of the impact on the economy and the ability for savings to invest in another time when the opportunity comes, cash is always much more appropriate. It is much more dignified. If you send money to several people through M-pesa, that is much cheaper than transporting the same value of money to that person who is going to receive it. Madam Temporary Speaker, during this COVID-19 time, we are encouraging people to keep distance and avoid crowds. Therefore, cash will not be an appropriate choice. If you can give even Kshs50 to people and leave them to that choice, you are better off than spending a lot of money transporting food and other stuff to wherever they are. Therefore, it is my recommendation that the Government uses cash which is more appropriate in the intervention that they are thinking of. As Sen. Mwaruma said, hunger will kill people. Hunger will not only kill the people, but it makes them much more vulnerable to the disease. If you are hungry, your immunity goes down. If the disease finds you at the lowest level of your immunity, the chances of you dying out of COVID-19 is higher than somebody who has better balanced diet. The other thing is that we, as Kenyans, have to be much more responsible in ensuring that we curb the spread of COVID-19. We ensure that we follow Government guidelines in terms of the curfew. The other day, I saw people being picked in a certain part of Nairobi for gathering in bar without even masks. They were just drinking. Some of those people included people with high responsibilities in the society. It is only fair that we become each other’s keeper. We need to be careful that we do not increase people’s vulnerability. This is because other people are taking advantage of them because of certain Government guidelines. For example, some people are taking bribes for them to allow them go to the other counties or people leaving where there is a small concentration like Eastleigh. That is costly to the economy and it perpetrates the fraud that we are trying to curb at a different level. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I thank you for giving me the opportunity."
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