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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I wish to just say a few words. This Committee will investigate some extremely sensitive security matters. It has been alluded in this House, that there could have been collusion. It is because there is no way this kind of thing could have been going on right under the nose of security agencies. I did not know I would serve in this Committee. As I speak to this Motion, I would be advising myself that the Constitution under Article 239(5), states clearly as a principle in this country, security agencies are subordinate to civilian authority. This Committee is the highest expression of civilian authority from the Senate to interact outside for a specific select purpose. We want them to act with a lot of boldness. We need them to call all the security heads that were dealing with this matter during the subsistence of these happenings. We want the truth to come out. This Select Committee must exhibit authority from the civilian because Kenyans want answers to this question. My prayer is that at the end of it, we will come with very fundamental legislative proposals that will find favour in this House and the National Assembly, so that this country will move forward. We will change this negative happening and the events that have made this country cry. Kenyans have cried and shed tears. There are people who were affected directly and those who have been horrified by what has happened. We will turn those tears into something productive that will give rise to a good nation. A nation where people will know they will be taking their children to Sunday schools and that where they will be worshipping, they will not be exposed to radicalism, cultism and things that will destroy them. I support this Motion."
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