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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Well, it is helpful if you have not seen the tweets. I have not seen the tweets that have been referred to or the insulting statement that is alleged. Naturally, this thing would have been floating around. It therefore looks like if there was one, there was a very heavy cover-up that we could not leave it to the ordinary law enforcement mechanisms to get to the root of this matter. That is why I would like people like Sen. Sifuna here, Sen. Mandago and the Bull of Nandi, Sen. Cherarkey, to sit on this issue and try to bring closure to this matter. We had Gen Zs killed in this country. It is close to a year today. No stone has been turned. If it has been turned, we were not told what was seen under that stone. As the ultimate House, national security is our business. That is why I read Article 238 (2)(a) of the Constitution. National security includes the lives of Kenyans. A life of a Kenyan has been lost. Many lives have been lost and no one has been held accountable. That is why I am saying that in this matter, we should form a committee of inquiry, the way it was done when J.M. Kariuki died and even recently when a lady was killed by British soldiers. We should unearth the evidence we can get and force law enforcement to act. If we leave it to law enforcement, we are going to complain; daylight, sunset and things will go cold. Let this House take charge and get to the bottom of this matter, turn whatever stone that needs to be turned, look under that stone and tell the world what they see. That is what we need. Otherwise, we are going to end up nowhere. They are going to sanitize this thing and it is going to disappear. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this was a murder. We even have information that this guy was taken to Central Police Station when he was bleeding. We would like these people to have a forum where they can come and tell us what they saw without the fear of being victimized. That is why I am asking for a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry. I thank you."
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