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    "id": 1097314,
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    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me begin by thanking the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security for the answer that we have received. However, I want to say that immediately this issue was raised, the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government attempted to answer to some of these concerns by putting a few police officers to undertake patrols in the area but I was surprised that in July – because this response was given to me in June – the arsonists, again, attacked the area and burnt about six homes. That is another issue which has happened in the area. So, I want to challenge the Chair that even though the answer says that this issue was isolated, it was not so because in the month of July that has happened. Secondly, it has become fashionable for the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government to say that there are investigations which are going on but when you look at it, once answers are read here, the story dies and we have not even been told to date who are the people who are involved in this initial case which is being answered here. So, Hon. Speaker, I think you need to help us so that the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government is really answerable and is able to give us answers. We cannot have police officers who do not investigate and arrest criminals when these issues occur. This is because there is nobody who has been arraigned in court. There is nobody who has been arrested. It appears that the police are investigating these matters forever as criminals re- emerge and continue to cause more harm and damage to our people. This has been one of the most vibrant trading centres in that sub-location. Right now, there is no business and no person is interested in opening even a shop in that area. So, the insecurity in that area is going to make that area become a ghost centre."
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