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    "id": 565553,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, most of the issues that I wanted to raise have been raised by my colleagues. When this attack happened, the first call that I got was from an international caller. That tells you how widely it was covered both nationally and internationally. The whole community, globally, is waiting to see what Kenya will do in reaction to what happened. Our brothers and sisters in the north eastern part of Kenya are actually bearing this brunt on behalf of all of us because of their proximity to Somalia. It is known that idle minds are a fertile breeding ground for just about anything. The more we allow these students not to be integrated back to the system and to be positively engaged, we are actually risking giving them more opportunity to even now then, in apathy, cross over to join the other side. I want to plead with the Chairperson of the Education Committee that I have listened to him make a suggestion which is really good that we also should involve the Cabinet Secretary in charge of security. However, as a Committee, they are mandated even before we reach that stagnation and stalemate to have thought it wise to seek any other Ministry that has some relevance to this issue. This is not just a matter that we should seclude to north eastern; it is a matter that is affecting all of us . Al Shabaab is now waiting to see how long and whatever else we put in place before they, probably, cross over to attack the University of Nairobi or Bondo University. I plead with the Chairperson of this Committee, on behalf of this nation, that this is, probably, the most important matter that has been brought to their Committee and we want to see very serious undertakings through your Committee by the national Government on the matters and process, complete with timelines, that it is doing to ensure that we do not experience this kind of attack again, not just in north eastern, but in any other institution."
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