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    "id": 1119440,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Faki",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Faki Mwinyihaji",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I also want to join my colleagues, Sen. Sakaja, Sen. Olekina and Sen. Dullo, to emphasize the fact that when we request for Statements in this House, they are supposed to be acted upon so that we report back to our constituents on what has happened on those Statements. It is not proper for a Statement to be read in this House and then a committee kills it. A petition was brought here by residents of Buxton Estate sometime early this year, but up to now, there is no report. We just have a ping-pong game. They said that they will summon the governor, but when he came to Nairobi, they asked him to go and meet those people. However, up to now, they have not been met and the construction is going on. The Chairperson of the Committee ordered at the site that there should be no construction, but construction is going on and people have given up. People are wondering whether this Senate is a forum for gumzo mtaani . If nothing is happening, what can we do to our people? Do we continue bringing Statements here? I raised a Statement here on the issue of forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings. A report was tabled here about three weeks ago, but since then, that Motion has never appeared on the Order Paper. We do not know what is happening. Many people are being abducted by the state organs and disappearing. I remember last week, there was a professor who is an advocate, who was abducted when he was following up an issue concerning his client, who had been released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence on terrorism charges. In Mombasa, there was a young boy of 22 years who was abducted early last month, but up to now, he has not been found. If we are going to work in this Senate and address issues that our people are facing, we need to see reports coming from the chairpersons of committees. Last year, I brought a Statement here on the shooting down of an aircraft in Somalia. Up to now, that Statement has not been acted upon. Are we coming here just to talk and go or there is some action that is supposed to be taken, so that our people know that we are working as the Senate?"
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