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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kipchumba",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I take this opportunity to pass my heartfelt condolences to the people who were affected both by those who died and those who are in hospital, the majority who were traumatized and the people of Kenya, in general. I want to say; pole sana . Madam Temporary Speaker, 21st September, 2013 was, unfortunately, my birthday. I was supposed to be part of the people celebrating my 50th year somewhere near Westlands and not at Westgate Mall. I was delayed because I was at a polio campaign in Kiambu area. I felt very sad because there are people that I personally know who died. Some are in hospitals, especially my friends who are in the KDF. I also want to take this opportunity to thank a team of Kenyans who always appear when you least expect them; the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS). The KRCS and the volunteers were among the first people who arrived before the police. Men who are licensed to hold arms were very useful at that time because they repelled some of those people. I take this opportunity to urge the Government to see how we can strengthen the KRCS as an institution. We should strengthen them, through facilitation, to work in every county. We should appreciate by providing resources and even training opportunities to Kenyans who volunteer in this society. I also want to take this opportunity to thank young Kenyans. I remember I saw young artists who remembered that they had talent. They came to perform through songs while others were donating blood and others going through lists of victims. I want to thank the young people of this country for all that they did. I support and ask; what is the KDF doing that the Kenya Police Service (KPS) is not doing? This is the question although we will revisit it another time. However, what is this particular thing that the KDF is doing and getting a lot of trust among our people that the KPS is not doing? I got worried when I saw a police officer with a gun running around in a raincoat. What can we, as Kenyans and as a community, do to improve on our own security? That is where community policing should be rethought by the strategists. I support."
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