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    "id": 1030652,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "where the Governor and the county government of Uasin Gishu rounded up children whom in their opinion looked like Luhyas and went and dumped them at a leprosy center in Busia County. Towards elections, Uasin Gishu County again rounded up children who to them looked like Luhyas and went and dumped them in Kitale. Then, we have this sad story from Nakuru where the County Government of Nakuru rounded up children. This time I think ethnicity was not an issue because they were trying to play a stupid game of creating a veneer of good looking for them to look and attract a recommendation to become a city. These children were dumped in a forest in Baringo; a forest infested with wildlife. Some of the children have not been found to date. That is criminal nature of the highest count. Mr. Speaker, Sir, no wonder yesterday, the governors had the audacity to say in Naivasha they want to be en masse, excused from criminal liability of any nature. That was their recommendation yesterday as a condition for supporting BBI; that no governor should be held criminally responsible for anything whatsoever, however. This is what they recommended and circulated to all Kenyans. I am sure Senators, you have read that. These are the same people who are doing these criminal things. These are the kind of people who should be cited for crimes against humanity. You judge a society on how it treats its children, the elderly and persons that have incapacities of whatever nature. I want to thank the Committee for the in-depth Report that they have tabled here. That is why I keep on crying on this Floor that the Speaker has to bring back the Implementation Committee of this House that can routinely follow up these kinds of transgressions and the hold State officers to account so that when we make recommendations, they are not rhetoric or in vain. We should have a committee that has to report back from time to time. The leadership of the County of Nakuru must be held criminally liable for the missing children. Seven of them cannot be found and the presumption is that they were mauled and killed by wild animals in Chemusus Forest in Baringo. I want to support these recommendations fully. People must be prosecuted. I want to urge the House to also look into the case of Uasin Gishu and the children that were dumped at a leprosy center in Busia and in Trans Nzoia. We cannot allow this to happen. We cannot say in our Constitution that we are a unitary State and we are busy discriminating against people on the basis of their ethnicity. Nairobi belongs to everybody. Every city belongs to everybody. Today, Sen. Sakaja can decide to relocate to Mandera and go and live there and become part of Mandera community. Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud here can choose to come and live in my village in Bungoma and become part of our community. If he has not achieved his four wives under the Quran, he can also pick a local one to add to his numbers and become part of us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Committee and thank you for exercising your discretion to allow Members to deal with this issue. This is the kind of Report that if we had changed our Standing Orders, it would have attracted a Motion for Members to debate this kind of callous, reckless and inhumane criminal behavior by people who call themselves leaders. These are people that Robert Mugabe once said that they are worse than pigs. These are the kind of people we do not want in our society. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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