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    "id": 1236193,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": "It is not just Members of Parliament who are now pointing fingers at each other. Look at our security agencies. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) is pointing fingers at the police. The police are saying that they have done their bit and are pointing fingers at the Judiciary. I am yet to see who the Judiciary will point fingers at, but they will also point fingers back at the police saying that the police did not conduct adequate investigations. That does not solve the problem before us. As leaders, we must dissuade and discourage each other from using opportunities like these that touch on the lives of our people to engage in cheap politics. Around 73 to 75 people – and I am sure that they are still exhuming more bodies – have died in a small village like Shakahola, where there is a chief who is being paid by the Government. When I listen to Hon. Mbeyu ask where the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party was, yet he is from a neighbouring constituency, I wonder. You are the Woman Representative. Where were you? At least the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party has brought a Motion for us to discuss and possibly come up with laws. We must not make this a talk show where we just speak and it ends there. I will challenge Hon. Gertrude Mbeyu or any of us to come up with a law. We should challenge ourselves to come up with laws that will see to it that no more Kenyans are radicalised in the pretext of religion, be it Christianity, Hinduism or Islam. I agree with what the President said yesterday – that, this is a terrorist who should be dealt with as a terrorist together with those who are “perfecting” people as they fast in the bushes. We must also speak to the Government of the day. It is true this has been going on since 2017. Those who were there ahead of you might have been busy using the National Intelligence Service and other security agencies to run after politicians. It is okay for those in office today like Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, Hon. Kithure Kindiki, to visit Shakahola but we want to see maximum deployment of even sniffer dogs if we are to save one extra life today. If it is sniffer dogs that will traverse the 800 acres of land to save one extra life from these terrorists, let us see that deployment of security forces, all equipment and whatever they will use to save the lives even as they continue to exhume bodies. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion and commend Hon. Owen Baya for taking up his role as a leader from Kilifi. I must say it is rather shameful to watch as I sit here what the Hon. Woman Representative for Kilifi was attempting to do, which is to play very cheap politics. I want to beg that we discuss this issue with..."
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