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    "id": 390839,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/390839/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "children and women. So, what has happened at Westgate Mall is a typical terrorist situation where they go for soft targets. The whole idea of a terrorist is not even to overthrow a government. They have no capacity to overthrow a government. What they do is to spread fear and paralysis in society. In fact, they are considered as mosquitoes. Mosquitoes cannot take over a house, but they can make so much noise in the house that you do not sleep. So, the terrorists in Kenya cannot be stopped at Westgate. They will continue disturbing Kenyans and looking for soft targets because the idea is to spread the psychology of terror and make people fear. I am so happy that Kenyans have come out boldly to say that they are not scared, because that is the only way to defeat terrorism. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the media has been praised, but indeed, terrorists rely on the media to spread fear in society. The way the Kenyan media has behaved, they have actually assisted the terrorists because people who were in all places were bombarded with continuous replays of the Westgate attack; some could not even leave their houses. In future, we should look at the law of the media because they are likely to spread more fear and advance terrorist objectives. Because this is not going to be the last one, we should be prepared as a country on how to deal with the terrorists. One of the things we should do, especially where those soft targets are, is to intensify our security. We should move away from deploying people with rungus to guard our malls and schools. Who does not know that there is no security there? We should do what Uganda has done. We should identify a company, for example, G4S or whichever and arm them. There are many retired soldiers here without any work. We should create a specialized security company which can handle armed people and post them around. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, we have an anti-terrorism unit in this country which is seriously underfunded. It is high time we allocated it sufficient budget, so that we can equip ourselves to deal with future cases of terrorism. I do not think they are going to stop with the Westgate case because they are very angry with what the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) did in Somalia. With those few remarks, I want to support."
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