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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I would like to commend Sen. G.G. Kariuki for such a wonderful Motion. It is important to appreciate that the country is going through a serious phase of attack. We have been sitting and getting reports about the levels of crime in the various parts of the country particularly where people are attacked, injured or wounded without any known motive. There are traditionally known motives like stealing and robbing. As I speak, my former Dean and colleague, Henry Lugulu, is recuperating in hospital because on Sunday night, he was attacked by thugs in Eldoret. He was shot in both legs without the attackers stealing anything from his car or his home. This kind of violence is not good for this country. We need to have such a committee to inform the current security forces and to even give suggestions in terms of what changes can be made. The National Security Council has the responsibility to address Parliament which includes the Senate once every year on the state of national security. I think in preparation for such an address from the national Government, it is important that they put together a team so that when the President will address Parliament, he should come and unveil such a committee. He could even come with a report of such a committee so that they can give us suggestions on the way forward so that we do not just become complainants, but the solution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, no country can develop with the insecurity of the magnitude that we have. As a lawyer, you know that any slight information that breaks out of this country, even if it means a robbery in one shop like it happened this morning down town, it will really scares away investors because everybody will imagine that the country is not safe. If every day, there are reports in the newspapers about violence, it scares away potential investors that would have come to the various parts of the country. In fact, I opine that the marginalized areas in this country are going to suffer or lack in development because of insecurity. I want to implore our brothers in Turkana and Pokot to try to know that the more there is violence between the two communities, the more they will lag behind. They will be in the 1950s and we are 50 years down the line trying to ensure that everybody gets equity and equality and development in this country. I support."
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