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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, like those who have spoken before me, I would also like to send my heartfelt condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and those who are still in the hospital with injuries. The matter we are discussing now brings to my mind one question; what is being human? Being human does not mean being rich or coming from this or that kind of society or the profession you are in. Being human means your conscience. Therefore, if the terrorists do not have the conscience of asking themselves; of what use or benefit is it to me when I see a little girl, as was seen on the footage, a girl of four years and all her parents were gone---. She was running on her own screaming and a man was trying to hold her. That is called conscience. If indeed we are also custodians of the same conscience that I am talking about and we are privileged to be in this Senate, then there is something else we must offer beyond just conscience. We must provide leadership. Providing leadership does not mean coming here. It means having a leading mind. Maybe, if the late Michuki was alive and he had been given opportunity to be the one in charge, he would have come out with a different way forward. You all remember that when some youths in the name of Mungiki assembled in Mathare and started visiting mayhem on Nairobians, Michuki went to Mathare. This is the time for all of us, Kenyan Luhyas, Luos, Somalis and all to ask the Government to bite the bullet and go into the cells of Al Shabaab in Kenya. The cells of Al Shabaab in Kenya are in Eastleigh. The Government must carry out a serious operation in Eastleigh. I want to ask all leaders of Somali extraction in this country to support the Government on this one because the Somalis of Somalia take camouflage there. Why all of a sudden? We have lived in this city for many years from the days we were in high school and in the university. We know that Eastleigh used to be a Cosmopolitan area. We are saying that an operation must be carried out---"
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