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"content": "THAT the Senate do now adjourn to discuss a definite matter of urgent national importance, namely, the rising cases of violent murder in the country, mainly targeting young women and girls, the most recent being the murder of three women in Eastleigh on 22nd October, which is the time that they were discovered, but they disappeared on 21st October, 2024; that is, the Dahabo Daud Said, Amina Abdi Rashid Dahir, and Nusuiba Abdi Mohammed, and a 23-year-old girl, Ms Seth Njeri Nyakio, in Thika, Kiambu County, on 14th October, 2024. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, this is a hard Motion to move because it breaks my heart. I would like to start with Seth Nyakio Njeri, a 23-year-old young lady, who had just graduated from Zetech University. According to the conversations and news that we have been receiving, she was also the daughter of Lucy Njeri, who is a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) in Kirinyaga County. One would think, because of her position in the society, her family would not experience such a brutal murder, especially that of her daughter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I go further, let me take this opportunity to pass my deepest condolences to the family of Lucy Njeri and to the family of the Dahabo Daud Said for the extreme pain, stress and untold suffering that those families have gone through the experience of such losses in our borders. It is even sadder to hear the story of the Dahabo Daud Said in Eastleigh. This is a wonderful woman who was killed alongside her daughter and a niece. When these stories are told, it is difficult to know the truth because of the laxity and lack of proper intelligence shared with the public and with families. I went to Eastleigh the other day just to find out really what happened. While this might not be a confirmed story, one of the conversations that I had was that this lady went to a mall in the evening, while the daughter and the niece were in the house. Then the story is told of how perhaps the daughter and the niece went to pick her from the mall. In my own deduction, it could be that their killers might have lured and gotten hold of them. After they were killed, their body parts were found in different locations. The body of Dahabo was found in Machakos. She was picked from Eastleigh, driven, or whichever means that was used, taken through the trauma of passing different places, and found in Machakos, mutilated without a head. The body of the daughter, was found in Bahati in Makadara, while the body of the niece was found on 6th Avenue, in Parklands. The images of how far apart these bodies are found, all of them having been lured together, begs the question of, do we really have a country? Do we have a country if a whole family can be picked by murderers, killed and their bodies mutilated and put in different locations? The distance from Nairobi to Machakos, the distance from Eastleigh to Makadara, the distance from Eastleigh to Parklands begs the questions of, what happened to surveillance in this country, and what happens to policing and monitoring in this country that can guarantee our people security? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a bit of domestic violence that has escalated to the point that it is no longer just a domestic violence issue on women, but also porosity in terms The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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