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    "id": 401129,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "November 5, 2013 SENATE DEBATES 24 Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to reiterate what Sen. Kagwe and Sen. Karaba have said. I can understand where Sen. Karaba is coming from. Sen. Karaba’s Kirinyaga County borders Murang’a County. Before Kirinyaga County started suffering the spates of kidnapping, we had a lot of deaths in Murang’a. To date, from the beginning of the year, we have had 18 kidnappings. All of them involve innocent rural folks. The kidnappers are demanding over Kshs1 million. No one who lives in a village in Murang’a has that kind of money. They are demanding tens of millions of shillings every other time. As you have heard, there have been 18 kidnappings. We raised the issue with the County Commissioner and the county security personnel but it is still going on. They kidnap somebody in Kirinyaga and dump them in Murang’a. This does not just give Murang’a a bad name, but it shows the decadence and that something is seriously wrong. The last time I remember this happening was the days that Mungiki was terrorizing people in Kiharu which I then represented and generally Murang’a. This created fear and despondence in the countryside. I am very saddened that once again men and women have to be home by 6.00 p.m., they have to close their businesses at daylight because they are scared that if they continue doing their business, they could be kidnapped and many other things could happen. Like Sen. Karaba has said, recently a very prominent school proprietor was kidnapped and three days later he was found murdered in Mwea; in the rice plantations. It creates fear and discourages investors whether local or otherwise. This is economic sabotage. I do not know what other name we could give it because it is making it very difficult for people to do business."
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