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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to comment on the Statement by Sen. Cherarkey. The person that we are talking about here is a man who lived by faith. He was a man who, if you had the opportunity to grow up in a Sunday school or a Madrassa, you would know that when our kids go to these places of worship and a man of God steps in, it is like life has just arrived. It is painful that even at times of war or at times of the violence that we have experienced in this country, for instance in 2007, the places of worship are the places that our children and ourselves run to get refuge. Today, we are in a country where men of God can be killed without any recourse to them. The other day we saw a Member of the National Assembly faking his abduction and yet, he was in a room with a Member of the County Assembly or some random person. Within five minutes, the instruments of power in this country, the internal security and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were able to close that file by investigating it in the shortest time possible. Why would a reverend, Father Bett, die and days, weeks and months go by without investigations being concluded? Where are the people who we have entrusted with security in this country? Where is the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration in this country? It is making this Government look bad because if we have a Cabinet Secretary like Hon. Murkomen, this is a place where we should have had heads rolling. Surprisingly, this is happening in Elgeyo Marakwet, where the Cabinet Secretary comes from. This is something that we cannot tolerate and this House should not just stop at the point of making a Statement to be committed to a committee. This should be something that we form a team from the Senate to do a proper inquiry into why men of God - whether they are from the Muslim faith, Christian faith, Bahai faith, or the Jewish faith - are being targeted. Can we not form a committee of the Senate to do a proper inquiry and make sure that there is justice? We cannot allow our institutions of faith to start being targeted. As a country, we will collapse because these are the places that we run to when the country is confused. These are the places we run to when there is violence in the country. These are the places---"
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