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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "said about what has been recommended to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) to investigate. It should read: “It is the finding of this Committee that this and this--.” Then we direct the necessary institutions to do whatever is needed. I think I have made myself clear on that point. I said this because this is the work of the Secretariat. I have been in Parliament long enough to know how committee reports are done. It is generated by the Secretariat. They do the typing, but even we as Members, we cannot absolve ourselves of the blame. We come, sit down and read through. Many times when I served as a Committee Member, I would correct and say, “please, remove this. Change from this language to the other.” There is the presence of mind needed on us as Members that we need to appreciate when we are looking into these operations. As a way of concluding, I appreciate that this Committee is recommending a relook into this law. It is a 1968 law that governs the registration of societies and they are guiding us on what we need to do. Let us face it, Members; so long as we continue to register churches and religious organizations under societies, there is very little that you can do to Mackenzies and the rest of the people who behave that way. We must set up the office of registrar of religious organizations, someone properly trained in the field of region. We are not short of men and women in this country who have the competence and we have the legal backing. We cannot fold our hands, sit down pretty in our loud silence and say, “oh! you know, religion is a sensitive topic. You cannot legislate or direct people on what to do.” See what that laissez-faire look at things has led us to as a country. We are told close to 500 Kenyans have died. It will be a dereliction of duty if after the passage of this Committee Report, and at the end of our term as House, we will not have had a relook of this law. Sen. Mungatana, as part of the exit nature of this Report, I believe that as you finally sit down as a Committee, you will draft the amendment to these Societies Act and bring it for us to consider. Set up this office. Nothing stops you from doing that. That way, we shall give direction to Kenya to know there are experts who can guide people; who can listen and say, “if you want to set up a Muslim religious institution, these are the standards that we shall expect from you.” Thus, we shall stop this issue. You have captured it in your Report about cells that are being set up. Many people believe that these are places where young people are being trained about terrorist activities."
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