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    "id": 390533,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "women has clearly exposed the soul of those involved and manifested the fact that the philosophy and objectives of the perpetrators of the heinous attack has nothing to do with religion, but an obvious act of cowardice and criminal barbarism of unimaginable proportions. Allow me, therefore, to affirm that this country is founded on the principles of transparency, accountability, democracy and good governance as set out very well in our Constitution. We shall, therefore, never surrender to anybody; neither to any criminal nor terrorist of whatever character, now or in the future. In the same breath, I would like to highly commend our security officers for their patriotism and heroism in confronting these agents of terror and for rescuing thousands of innocent people who had been trapped in the mall, and they continue to do so. I also wish to extend our appreciation, as the Senate, to all those ordinary people who have in one way or another assisted in evacuating people to safety and provided any form of support to those affected as well as our international friends who have expressed their solidarity with us and through other actions after this dastardly attack. We, as a Senate, have also received condolences from many other Senates in the world. In this regard, I further note with appreciation that the Senators, this morning, sat in their Kamukunji and have contributed Kshs2 million to be donated to the Kenya Red Cross Society towards this effort; and this is in addition to the Kshs2 million that was contributed by the National Assembly yesterday. We will continue to donate blood as well as many other initiatives at the county level in collaboration with the governors. The Senate stands by His Excellency the President, hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, and the Deputy President, hon. William Ruto, and the entire Executive Arm of the Government in managing the crisis that befell our country and asserts its unreserved support in dealing with the criminals, helping those affected and in restoring normalcy back to our country. Let us now, in our usual parliamentary tradition, distinguished Senators, stand in our places and observe a minute of silence in honour of those infants, children, women and men killed in the senseless attack and to reiterate our resolve to defeat terror and to affirm our way of life; democracy and the unity of the nation. Let us observe one minute of silence."
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