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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Saitoti",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Muthengi Kinuthia Saitoti",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I sympathize with my good friend, hon. Ethuro, but the point of the matter is that there is some very important information here that is very much connected to the question that was asked. Given the gravity of this matter, it is important that I lay bare some of these facts because they are important. Apart from the weapons that were recovered, Al Shabaab training manuals and a packet of sweets were recovered. Upon this recovery, further investigations were carried out by the police and this led to the arrest of a Mr. Omam Ochieng Athman alias Hussein alias Olima and Stephen Mwangi Macharia alias Jogoo. It is now a well known fact that the suspects were arraigned before our court vide the Central Police Station, CRO 112613/2011 and Mr. Bwire Oliacha entered a plea of guilty to all the nine counts and was sentenced to serve life imprisonment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, however, the charges against the other two are still pending before the court. This is the crux of the matter. For the first time, the police have arrested a person, not only with weapons and documents relating to the activities of the AlShabaab, but who has admitted that he was an Al Shabaab . I do not want to go into that because the matter is in court, but there are these two other people and although their case is pending in court, serious investigations are being carried out. This is something which we have to move quickly and conduct very thorough investigations because the issue we are dealing with is that of terrorism. We want to make sure that at least we get into enclave of this web of terrorists. I can assure this House that, indeed, this issue is being investigated, not only by the police but by combined investigative forces. On the matters of terrorism and the Al Shabaab, we have brought all the security agencies to focus not only on the investigation, but also on the deterrence and ways of trying to deal a blow to these terrorist organizations."
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