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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to say from the outset that what happened in Lamu was a massacre of a criminal nature. No amount of language can be used to try and characterize what happened in Lamu other than it being a crime against the people of Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to advance your argument that, really, there is nothing like “political crimes”. Crimes are crimes, and they are punishable under the law. So, nobody should hide behind the politics that are happening in any other area, including Lamu, to commit crimes against the people of Lamu and the people of Kenya as a whole. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I, for one, want to say that whoever was responsible for the mass murder that has taken place in Lamu--- In fact, they border on genocide because it was targeting particular people, a particular sect and it was done in circumstances where it was brutal, showing the most blood lust and outrageous crime against human conscience. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to say this – and we must talk about this seriously – if you want to take the issue of security seriously, those that are charged with that authority, please, do not politicize it by trying to pass the buck. In Rwanda, when there was a civil war, the Rwandese Government made sure that the war was not going to be fought in Rwandese territory. So, you can fight them, but they are fighting out there in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Israel made sure that whichever security lapses they may suffer, but the war against terrorism is not being fought in their territory. Now, one of the military objectives in deploying our troops to Somalia was to make sure that the war against terror was not going to be fought in Kenyan territory; that it should be fought elsewhere. But because we have incompetent people who have no idea about having a proper security policy and a military arrangement to advance that policy, we have had serious breaches of security affecting the lives and property of the people of this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we begin to count – from Bungoma, where more than 60 Bukusus were killed – nobody tried to tribalize or ethicize it. But some people in the Government were saying that it is political. Up to now, no single person has been arrested and prosecuted for the murders that happened in Bungoma. What about Tana River where more than 60 people were killed and up to now, nobody is telling us who carried out The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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