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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want, first of all, to commend the hon. Member, my brother Ken Obura, for raising this very important and urgent matter. Secondly, I would like to send my condolences to the hon. Member who lost his dear parents, and who happens to be in the House. He reported the matter; we saw it; he brought here some tapes and so on and displayed what was going on. It is very unfortunate that the Government did not take note of this matter. I think every human being is entitled to security, which, particularly in this country, is a serious mess. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I would not like us to regionalize this matter because it is happening everywhere. It is only that when it happens to people they do not have the capacity to report it. It is happening in my constituency – somebody comes and rapes young girls in the presence of the father and mother and then picks on the mother and rapes her as the man watches helplessly. Then they come to the man--- It happened when they went to a home of a former Deputy Commissioner of police and took a gun from him. That gang went up to Busia, Bungoma and now it has turned round and gone to Kisumu County. So, I would really like to plead with my brothers and sisters in this House that we do not regionalize this matter. It is the responsibility of the Government to provide security. It happened to hon. Members during the last Parliament. We lost quite a number of hon. Members. Some of them were just caught at their gates and shot and killed. It has taken us almost ten years to unravel those killings. But if somebody steals just ten or five shillings, a whole court is convened and somebody is jailed for that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious issue and I would like to plead with the Government to spend a little bit more on it; I think the police are working in the old way. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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