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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "content": "The other one is inadequate resources. Before I even go there, you saw when the President went to Kapedo, in a serious public rally, a Senator stood up and said: “Mr. President, we thought we were killing Turkanas”, and he was not arrested. He said: “Mr. President, we thought we were not killing your police officers. We thought we were killing Turkanas and home guards.” He said that in front of the public and in front of the Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces. The life of a Turkana, Pokot or any other Kenyan is important. This is a leader of the 21st Century. That is how Kenya has gone down the moral fabric. We have gone down and we must go back. If you are a Muslim, you need to go back to the mosque. If you are a Christian, you need to go back to the Church and ask yourself what is happening. So, we have a serious moral decay. It is the same in Mombasa. There are over 300 mosques in my constituency. At 8.30 p.m. after the last prayer, those mosques are closed. I want to speak for the Muslim faithful. Islam is a religion of peace. Our own greetings, Assalamu Alaikum call others to peace. Never in the history of the Islamic religion or in Christianity was a house of worship used for any other purpose other than making it closer to your God. So, like I said yesterday, the matter is bigger than ole Lenku and Kimaiyo. I asked a question yesterday. The Chairman of the Committee on Administration and National Security is here. I will leave that to the Committee. The matter is even bigger than the Committee and even than this House. It is a serious national issue. What we are facing is exactly what Iraq, Syria and every country is facing. It is a serious global terrorism threat. But, what is unique to Kenya - we must call a spade a spade and we must cheer the President – is that the biggest threat in our country today is corruption. From Mandela to Nairobi through Thika, there are over 1,000 road blocks and yet, grenades and arms pass through. Foreigners buy our documents. If somebody wants to bomb the National Assembly today, he needs only USD3,000. You will get entry even when the House is full. We must analyse our political body, which is embedded in corruption. If a CEO of a public company in Kenya retires when he is poor, his community will say he is very useless. You are not worth that job. Position is equated to eating. What are you eating? You are eating public money which is meant for roads. So, we need to speak to ourselves across the political divide; Kenyans of all political shades. I said this and I will repeat it today: When the Americans were hit by terrorists on 11th September under the leadership of President George W. Bush, they came together, from the media, the social networks, civil society to the opposition. By then, the Democrats said: “Our nation is under attack!” Today, our nation is under attack from the"
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