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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity also to join my colleagues in sending my message of condolences to the families of the dead and a prayer for quick recovery for those who are hospitalized. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to take this opportunity also to thank the Kenyan security forces. These are people who have put their lives on the line. I do not want to repeat what my colleagues have said. But maybe just to say that we really have to look at their welfare in due course, because of the extreme sacrifice that they are taking to protect us and ensure that we have peace and security in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to commend the President and the entire leadership of this country, the former Prime Minister and hon. Musalia Mudavadi for leading the nation very well at this time of the national tragedy. But most of all, I wish to thank the people of Kenya for what they have done. I do not want to repeat what has been said, but they have shown that there is what we call the Kenyan spirit. One of the things that we have noticed is that whenever we have a tragedy in Kenya, be it after the bomb blast of 1998, this spirit is exhibited. Whenever our athletes do very well out there, this spirit is exhibited and lasts for as long as maybe two or three weeks. Thereafter, we are back to our normal lifes. I think that this is a great challenge to us, as leaders, to ensure that we sustain this Kenyan spirit throughout and not just at the time when we have a national tragedy. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that Kenya has had a number of these attacks, starting with the one at the Norfolk Hotel. Since 2011, there has been an upsurge of grenade and bomb attacks and everything else. Now, we have this coming. The tendency normally is that when we have a national tragedy such as this, there is need for the nation to take audit of what happened, why it happened and why it was not detected in time, because prevention is better than cure. I am sure that at the right time, the Senate should be involved in that audit to find out exactly what happened. Where did our intelligence systems fail? Where did the security systems, even at the Westgate itself, fail? That audit is going to be necessary. Remember that after the 11th September strike in New York, it led to an audit. That audit led to the changes in the law, not just in America, but also pressure for the entire world to change its security laws. It came from what had happened there. This is a serious matter and we must have an audit to see what is wrong with our anti-terrorism law. Is there something that we can do to amend our anti-terrorism law, so that we can meet the future challenges of this nature? I am saying this because I heard somewhere, on BBC or wherever, that the Al"
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