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    "id": 1291853,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen, Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to first begin by thanking Sen. Oketch Gicheru and Sen. Munyi Mundigi for bringing up this matter. The spirit in which they brought this matter, I would have expected that the spirit would carry the debate. The debate is bipartisan and it does not matter who is falling where. You just debate on this matter and find a solution. I will say only two things. One, death is final. When people die because they have been killed by other people, then it does not matter the tribe, location, who the leader in that area is and who is not a leader. The only thing that matters is a person has killed another person. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as a country, we belong to the community of civilized states as a nation and as a democracy. It is actually a big shame to all of us and I am not exempting myself. It is really a big shame that we can be debating tribal clashes at a time like this; that 60 years after Independence, Kenya can comfortably debate tribal clashes. Secondly, it is a shame on us that we would take sides in that debate. In Sondu, I saw photos yesterday being shared on social media. From those photos, it is impossible for anyone to know the tribe of the people that have been killed. We saw Kenyans that have been killed by other Kenyans. The thing that we should be doing today as leaders in this country is with serious vigour and determination, find out who killed these people. There are police records and those records will bear this debate out in identifying the communities from where these people have been killed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as a leadership of this House; the Senate, that thing that we should be exercising our minds today in this debate is who the killers are and how can we pursue them and put them to book. That is a more interesting debate, mature and a leadership-oriented debate that the people of this country would want to see from the Senate. In conclusion, the lives of the people living in Kitui Country matter as much as lives of the people living in Uasin Gishu, Kisumu, Vihiga, Kakamega and Nairobi counties. These are Kenyans’ lives and they matter. As a leadership and as a House, we must stand to defend the right to life of every Kenyan. Lastly, under the United Nations Charter (UNC), there is a principle called the ‘responsibility to protect’. The first line of protection under the UNC is with the Government. The Government has a responsibility to protect the lives and property of its citizens. We cannot say that this happened during the reign of Moi---"
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