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    "id": 390835,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/390835/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this may not be the right time to point out a number of those challenges that we face within the security sector, but it is important that we make deliberate steps in this House. We should task even the relevant Committees to look at the various security legislations that exist in this country and identify the gaps, so that we do not witness Kenyans losing lives beyond this Westgate Mall case. We should not lose the opportunity to thank the very gallant forces of this country that responded professionally to the attack. We may have lost a lot of lives. But if you look at the magnitude and organized nature of the attack, most likely if we did not have a professional force, we would have lost more than even 1,000 lives. It is very important that we are able to encourage our forces. We saw the Inspector General of Police, Chief of Defence Forces and the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government spending almost three or four days in there and giving us updates. We may not believe some of those updates or point out some of the lapses, but we must appreciate that they did their job. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to appreciate the media in the way they covered the incident, save for one case in one of the newspapers on Sunday. All the other media houses attempted to give a balanced reporting to this incident. We must appreciate them and ask the others to follow suit. More importantly, we need to appreciate the political leadership in this country. Seeing the President and the former Prime Minister addressing the nation at State House was quite reassuring. I saw one of the tweets in the social media today indicating that, that was the right way to go. Somebody was asking whether we appreciate the terrorists because they gave us and the political leadership in this country an opportunity to come together. I do not think that we need to wait for such kind of a tragedy for us to engage as leaders from both sides. We need to appreciate the political leadership for doing this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to finalize by appreciating the gesture that was extended to this country by the International Criminal Court (ICC), in allowing the Deputy President to come back home and mourn with Kenyans. I think that was a respectful move. We know that His Excellency the President lost a nephew. In that state of mind, he needs the principal assistant to help him in dealing with this crisis. Therefore, we appreciate the ICC. Of course, we will be asking them to consider, now that we have seen this challenge, that they extend the same gesture---"
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