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    "id": 1326519,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "they were ready to meet Jesus. They had been totally and completely brainwashed to believe that his world is to their home and that they belong elsewhere. The thing that I find very difficult to deal with as a practicing Christian is how to put the Mackenzie’s of this world in the same sentence with my Bishop, Rev. Abraham Mulwa of the Africa Inland Church. I ask my Bishop to forgive me seeing that I can compare them as though I am comparing apples to apples. Something needs to be done and something must be done. I have looked at the recommendations of this Committee very carefully from 135 and I have made three or four observations. I will be very brief on this one. There is a recommendation to probe the Kilifi County Security Committee and that responsibility is given to the DCI. My question is; when these people were dying wherever they were dying and being buried at Shakahola, the DCI was present. It has officers all over the country. The DCI is a member of the Kilifi County Security Committee as is the National Police Service (NPS), the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the County Commissioner. When we asked the DCI to investigate the Committee, are we asking the DCI to investigate themselves? What will happen if they find that the County Security Committee is culpable? What judgement are they likely to pass? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will build my case and conclude in two minutes. Allow me to go to the operationalisation of the National Forensic Laboratory. A very important recommendation has been made. I have had an opportunity to visit the Forensic Laboratory in Muthaiga. When I was taken round the facility, I was told that it is a state- of-the-art facility only comparable to I think another one in South Africa. I was informed that we could investigate and conclude on any forensic issue, not just in Kenya but also in this region through that facility. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are telling the Cabinet Secretary to make sure that facility is operational. Somewhere within the same recommendations or the debate around the Shakahola happenings and on the Floor of this House, the character of the Cabinet Secretary has been brought to question, especially in his role of stopping witnesses from appearing before this Committee. If that be the case, how then is it expected for the Cabinet Secretary to fast-track the operationalization of a facility that is meant to bring closure to a matter when he has personally brought in hurdles? There are also recommendations to strengthen the Witness Protection Agency (WPA). This is open-ended, but the officers responsible for that would be the same Cabinet Secretary, the DCI and the National Intelligence Services (NIS). Witness protection is an important component of any investigation in any country. I have previously said on the Floor of this House and I will repeat it that I am a journalist of long and good standing. The one thing you can never take away from a journalist is our vow to our profession; to never expose our sources of information. A good journalist will go to the grave with their source of information, if they have to. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on a matter that has claimed the lives of more than 425 people, we need to protect witnesses and people that provide information. It is so basic and yet so crucial that before you begin any investigations, you start there. This is"
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