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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Members at the back, please take the nearest seats. Hon. Members, I am sure you saw in the media yesterday that your colleague, the Member for Juja, Hon. Koimburi, was reported missing by his family on Sunday. Yesterday, news bulletins stated that he had been found in a coffee plantation. Fortunately, he was alive. He has been taken to one of the leading hospitals in Nairobi, where he is currently admitted and recuperating. This morning, I instructed the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security, Hon. Tongoyo, to liaise with the Inspector-General of Police and other security agencies, including the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, so that they can obtain, at least, some preliminary facts to present to the House. I have been advised by the hospital where he was admitted that the family had given strict instructions not to allow visitors. However, we saw in the media some visitors around the Member, but we have been informed that they are not allowing visitors, including officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) who wanted to visit and ascertain what may have happened. I am told they were turned away. Be that as it may, I have directed the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security, and the Member for Turkana West, Hon. Epuyo Nanok, who is also the Chairperson of the Committee that Hon. Koimburi serves, to visit the Member in hospital this afternoon. I hope you will be permitted to see him so that tomorrow, I can give Hon. Tongoyo an opportunity to update the House on the situation regarding our Member. I want to encourage the security agencies that, as they carry out thorough investigations in the fatal shooting of Hon. Ong’ondo Were, to also investigate the circumstances leading to the disappearance and reappearance of Hon. Koimburi on the dates that I have mentioned, so that we get to know. In the meantime, I encourage all of you Members and, indeed, all Kenyans to be conscious of your security and the surroundings and the people you associate with wherever you are, so that you do not have your security compromised at any one time leading to unfortunate incidents like the loss of life of Hon. Were and the disappearance and reappearance of Hon. Koimburi. Hon. Tongoyo, do you want to comment on this?"
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