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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we talk about crime and justice, it does not carry two faces. We know very well what happened in Oklahama, when an individual bombed and killed innocent children in school. The result was that he also paid by death through lethal injection. We are talking about a developed country which deals with hard core criminals. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when the death sentence was introduced in this country, there must have been hard core criminals. In 1998, elaborate hard core criminals bombed our city of Nairobi. What if these people were arrested and brought to justice and sentenced to death in a similar circumstance that they killed innocent people, would the human rights people come up and say, \"forgive them\"? It is an elaborate issue. It is not a two-faced case when justice has to be done. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is appalling when we discuss the life of an individual. An innocent person's life is valuable. A criminal's life is also valuable. But what pains when an innocent life is lost through criminal activities? I definitely do not understand and do not agree with Mr. Ahenda that we should abolish death sentence in this country. Death sentence has always been highlighted in newspapers and it has scared many people. In some cases, some people say that whereas there is the death sentence, it does not deter murder or crime. Do we have to wash away the legal justice that deals with crime? Are we advocating for clemency of criminals? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Prof. Guya Bwayo was gunned down in Kiserian by the so-called highway robbers. We have never seen these people brought to book although we were told that they were arrested. We, of Bwayo's family, who were bereaved, and especially me who was his classmate, what do we think about justice vis-a-vis crime in this country? When Abel and Cain had a crime between them, what did God say to Cain? He said: \"Your brother's blood is crying to me from the soil.\" That is what he told Cain. In Islam, there is a law that a murderer faces similar justice. The same applies to the Jews. So, what is the difference between those people who are cited in the Bible and us, in the modern days? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it has been a habit in this country to imitate some substandard rules and regulations from countries which do not experience high technology crimes, like there are in this country. Since we have softened the law, that is why there is crime everywhere in the world. For example, there is a lot of crime on Kenyan highways. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Penal Code is a supportive instrument that helps lawyers to engage and arrive at an agreement when a crime involving death has occurred. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to oppose this Motion."
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