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    "id": 1349608,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abass",
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "the sub-location up to the national level. Therefore, there was no way more than 400 people could die without anyone noticing or seeing it. It cannot happen. There is no way an issue can happen in a place where there are chiefs. Chiefs are people who get first-hand information. The sub chief is someone who is the head of a sub location. There were elders and Nyumba Kumi guys including the Kaya groups. It is actually shocking. How come all these human beings, all these leaders, were blindfolded on this issue? It should not have happened. It must be something bigger than religion or anything else. Religion has no problem. Christianity and Islam have no problem. The problem is how it is being used. The Bible is there and it is very clear. It is well understood. It talks about humanity. The Quran is there and is also very clear. It also talks about humanity. Killing one person is an abomination and that should haunt everybody. Now when you kill 400 people in the most inhumane way, including starvation and from the report, those who did not die were killed and buried--- It is a very unfortunate situation. Even to date, how the tragedy is taken, seems as if it is something normal that has happened, where 400 people died. Nobody up to now is properly talking about it. No action has so far been taken. It is seen as something that is just normal. I am not seeing anyone apprehended. We are not seeing people including the leadership talk about it. It was only for the first few days we ran around and a few graves were dug and corpses were retrieved and that was the end of everything. This is a massacre and someone must take responsibility for it. Madam Temporary Speaker, extremism is with us. It is all over. It is there in the Muslim and Christian Communities. It is there in the Atheists and it is everywhere. It has now gone a notch higher where people are being murdered, traded, indoctrinated and given all kinds of drugs. People are being hypnotized and brainwashed as a colleague said. People are told that they will go to see God. I do not see how someone will see God when they kill someone. There is no way. You cannot be blessed by God because you are a murderer. Another thing that I have noted is poverty. Poverty is playing a big role in this country. People are poor. I do not know where these guys are also getting the money from. The Government must also interrogate where these people are getting money from. We saw people who were employed in good institutions leaving their jobs. You see a whole household with eight or five people perishing. So, this is something we must study. Some people must go and study what happened. It is not in this Report. There must be bigger issues. It must be involving senior people. People must have used a lot of money because that is the only thing that can silence any criminal act. It is not only religion. When you use a lot of money, you can silence the inhumane acts that someone commits. We need to go back to the same place and study it properly. We need to fight all these kinds of extremism. The other day I said, let us register organisations that deal with churches or the religious guys. However, people were shouting no, this is against--- No! It is not against anybody. We are not against any religion. If this kind of act can take place, these people must be registered so that we can see what actions are taking place in those institutions, churches, and mosques. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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