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"content": "the matter brought to the Floor by Hon. Bashir is a critical national matter that we need to prosecute with sobriety as Kenyans. No Member would rise on the Floor of this House to support atrocities by any uniformed officer against our citizens. In fact, we are not here to say whether the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) have done right or wrong. It is not in our place to judge them. However, it is not lost to my mind that in the last Parliament, this House declined to accede to the renewal of the terms of service and the terms of training of the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK). When we refused to sign up and regularise the BATUK’s presence in Kenya, we took a hit as a House. However, in the 13th Parliament, we passed that the BATUK can practise and train on our mother soil. That came with a very serious rider. This House resolved that if any British Army officer were to commit a crime in Kenya, they would be tried here. The BATUK is known to have killed our people. They are known to have raped our women. Also, they are known to have maimed our people, not to forget their serious environmental degradation. We understand that the BBC is funded by taxpayers' money in Britain, meaning that the BBC is funded to push the foreign agenda of the British people internationally. We must know whether the BBC is speaking as a mouthpiece of the Government and the people of Britain, or what it is doing. Could it be an attempt to arm-twist this country so that we can rescind the rider that we put on their training of the BATUK in Kenya and perpetuate a history of extractive, oppressive and exploitative economy in a very unfair trade balance between Kenya and the United Kingdom (UK)? Even as we debate this matter, it is not lost to us that there were unfavourable events at the time that led up to the Finance Bill, but that is not what we are debating. We would like to know for a fact whether what the BBC is airing is connected to the riders that this House put on the training of the BATUK where we require that if any British army officer is found to have killed, maimed, or raped in Kenya, they be tried on our mother soil as it would happen to a Kenyan found guilty of a criminal offence in the UK. We need these issues clarified to Kenyans. We know many issues have happened in the UK and elsewhere, but they did not get the media presence we see being put on the issue about the KDF. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "Hon. Speaker, I dare say that I am not speaking in defence of the KDF. My intention is to frame the issues at hand, knowing that the media report we are discussing may be influenced by ulterior motives. As a media practitioner, I understand that no news item featured prominently on a media station is an orphan; every media piece has its parents. Let us consider the agreement that allows the British Army to train in Kenya and on our soil, alongside the consequent exploitation and depletion of our environment. We are aware of the human rights abuses committed by the British Army in Kenya—the killings, the maiming and the raping will not go unnoticed, and we will not keep quiet about this issue. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Hon. Millie, are you rising on the same?"
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"content": " Yes. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to thank Hon. KJ for urging us to speak soberly about this issue. I wish to talk soberly about this issue. Sometimes, in leadership, you have to take the road less travelled, and on this issue, I want to take that path. Hon. Speaker, we lost many young people, and many others are traumatised as a consequence of what happened. It is a moment in our country that we all wish had never happened. I believe we have not handled this issue well, which is why people from outside are coming to document it. If, as Kenyans, we could acknowledge that things went wrong and that we need to fix them, it would not matter even if the BBC aired it. We have to fix our problems on our own. We do not have to wait for the BBC to tell us something is wrong. I have a problem with their chosen title, which is typical of media houses because they seek to create a trending narrative. Because of that, they may have given it that title. However, we have not yet dealt with some of the issues raised. We have dealt with some, but one of the issues we have not dealt with is the trauma. I said it when Hon. Elachi lost her son, we have a very angry young generation in this country, and part of this anger stems from the issues we are seeing. We cannot bury our heads in the sand. Let Parliament take the lead in finding a way to help these young people heal. We do not know what may come in the next few months or even next year, compounded by the reality that many young people are jobless and frustrated. I do not know what the intention of the BBC is. It could be to fuel more harm or not. Based on what I have heard from the youth, it has actually created more anger. We are leading them back down a path they would prefer not to walk again, and we cannot predict when someone will fuel that anger again. The media cannot be stopped. Someone else will fuel that anger again. Therefore, it is crucial for us to address this issue. Let Parliament take the mandate to deal with it. When we experienced post-election violence, I was fortunate to be in Parliament. I believe you were also here then, Hon. Speaker. What we did then was set up a Select Committee. We travelled all over this country because, as human beings, we tend to forget. Just when we thought we had moved on, I recall meeting a woman whose husband's head had been decapitated. She went to her home with her husband's head. We were dealing with people who were angry and depressed. I remember breaking down in tears while speaking in Parliament—not for myself, but for what we had witnessed. We might think we are moving forward, but many young people have not genuinely moved on. Hon. Speaker, I would appeal—not that I want to sit on that committee—that we establish a Select Committee to address this issue, which is not solely a matter of the Finance Bill but also concerns the aftermath of that Finance Bill. I humbly agree that we deal with this soberly and discourage ourselves from pursuing processes we believe may be politically correct but do not necessarily advance us as a country. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Hon. Beatrice Kemei, read your request for a Statement."
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