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    "id": 1148804,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to thank Sen. Kwamboka for presenting this. However, I am a bit disappointed with the Committee. If there is one committee whose work is urgent, which involves life and death, the rule of law and disintegration of our country should we not be on top of things, then it is this Committee. I was sad when she read out the request I made to the Committee dated 4th August, 2021. That was about murder of a conservationist. It does not really matter that she was a conservationist but it was about murder of one of our citizens. She was supposed to be safe. Life is important. Many others were involved in the lives of the citizens we lost. If lives cannot cause urgency for us, what on earth would cause urgency for this House? Madam Temporary Speaker, I was excited when I sought this Statement and the committee was supportive. They even reduced the time from 14 to seven days. I was proud that for the first time, a human life meant something. When a Petition is brought to this House regarding a life lost, we treat it urgently. They reduced it to seven days. The HANSARD will bear me witness. The stakeholders that had logged in to that meeting were encouraged. Later on, they called me to say that the Senate is an amazing House and there was hope for them. Today, many months later, it is now forming the next order of business, quite low in hierarchy because it is being read towards the end. After all the excitement, the citizens who were encouraged and proud of this House are a disappointed lot today. That does not augur well for us, especially when lives have been lost. If a life gone does not even move us and create the urgency that this nation needs to act, what would? I am not saying any work or question is more important than the other, but there are some that are sacred. Life is sacred. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like you to press the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. To belong to the committee is a big privilege. Therefore, we expect more from Members of the Committee. Good positions must also have the commensurate responsibility even if that responsibility is heavy. The Committee is an important one. I am looking for the right word. Today, I drove from Isiolo from 4.00 a.m. So, I am a bit lost for English words. I have been practising my mother tongue. If this House allowed me, I am sure the word would have come. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am appealing to you because you are a lawyer and you know the importance of the rule of law. You are a human being and you understand the value of human life. The Committee holds a sensitive portfolio and it must be responsible because of many deaths that have occurred. The conservationist’s death gave us so much hope because the Committee itself reduced the time by half. However, many months later,"
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