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    "id": 426620,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/426620/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to ventilate on the Report of the two Committees. I will support this Report simply because it has come at the right time. Even if this Report did not come, we would still adjourn to debate the state of insecurity in our country. This Report has come shortly after the Likoni incident and many other incidents that have happened around the country. It is evident, therefore, that Al Shabaab, or Al Qaeda, or whatever these groups are, could be signaling the coming of a wider offence in Kenya. This is quite true. That is why it is a little worrying when two Committees sit for a lengthy period, invite witnesses who testify and appear not to have a grip on the seriousness of what is happening within our country. It has been said before - and there have been recommendations before - that the country should upgrade its security surveillance, communication command and control system. There was an attempt by the former President, Hon. Mwai Kibaki, in 2006 to form a steering committee to look into this. The two Committees did not even go back in time to see whether there were efforts made to control insecurity, particularly terrorism. This was not done. There was also a recommendation that we should also reform our intelligence gathering system to embrace human intelligence. The best we have seen is"
}