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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the loss of lives in Lamu must be fully investigated. If the President says it is political, let that case be made out because he has been given those instruments. The executive authority is bestowed on the President, and if he is misleading us, like the former President misled us at one time that Hon. J.M. Kariuki had travelled to Lusaka, Zambia, when he was lying dead in Ngong Hills, then let it be; we have heard those lies before. If it is political and he knows that it is political---. What happened in Lamu was not political; it was a crime! Let him come out with the names of those criminals and let them be prosecuted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, above all this, we must make Kenya safe for everybody. I want to live in a Kenya where I can move anywhere, anytime; I want to live in a Kenya where everybody is my neighbor; I want to live in a Kenya where I can protect every Kenyan as my brother and sister but not in a Kenya where every day we are vilifying ourselves on the basis of ethnicity and tribalism. That is happening, not because of our personal identities but it is happening because there are some people who are too hungry for power and they do not want to get to the root causes of the problems that we have as a nation. That is why they can throw away the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Report (TJRC); that is why they are afraid to hold a commission of inquiry about the Westgate massacre and that is why we cannot find answers and solutions to what happened in Tana River, Samburu and in Bungoma. Mr. Speaker, Sir, by the time you will wake up one day, you may find yourselves being prosecuted not for carrying out these crimes but for sitting on them and watching instead of doing something about them. With those few remarks, I support."
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