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    "id": 993072,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Zoom or any other platform, then it should be perfectly okay for all the 47 county assemblies to follow suit. Secondly, at a corporate level, it is important for Parliament to have a business continuity plan. Today, we are talking of a COVID-19 pandemic and we do not know what else is coming. Many of us took this thing for granted. I was with a friend of mine from South Sudan who thought that COVID-19 was melanin resistant; that is, the darker you are, the more resistant you are to COVID-19. Today, it is reported that the deputy President of South Sudan, Dr. Reik Machar and his entire delegation are staying at the Pyramid Continental Hotel because they been infected with COVID-19. The Pyramid Continental Hotel in Juba is now a no go zone because it is a COVID-19 hotspot. In Nigeria, the chief of staff of the Presidency is infected. In the United Kingdom (UK), the Prime Minister is also infected. In the United States of America (USA) high ranking officials have also been infected. Let us not take this thing for granted. The same way HIV/AIDS will catch you if you go around sleeping without the equivalent of facemasks for other parts of the body is the same way COVID-19 can afflict all of us irrespective of the positions we hold. So, let us take it seriously and send the message to the nation that we are not here for per diems or allowances. We are here for a bigger call. Finally, Committees must also learn to adjust. I sympathize with my colleagues and successors in the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC). The old style of grilling and interrogation of governors was a pre-COVID-19 era. No governor, at this point in time, will want to come to Nairobi. They will use COVID-19 as a perfect excuse. They will, first of all, say that Nairobi has been cordoned off and that there is COVID-19 in Parliament. So, they will prefer to do accountability sessions on"
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