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    "content": "a single incident. It is baffling that a bunch of murderers can raid a village in Mpeketoni at 10.00 p.m. and eight hours later, even the military from Nairobi has not flown in to help Kenyans and yet we are giving them billions and billions of shillings from taxpayers money to protect Kenyans. We demand that the President institutes a public open inquiry in all these murders and massacres that we have seen in Bungoma, Mpeketoni, Westgate, Wagalla, Turbi, Mombasa and everywhere so that Kenyans can get to know the truth. We cannot keep on saying it is political and yet there is no politician being prosecuted. As you say, it is political, I am sure the Al Shabaab criminals are now smiling themselves to the bank. You have already given them an excuse, you have already protected them and they are no longer suspects. Mr. Speaker, Sir, how can we, as a country, in the 21st Century behave like this? The buck stops on one table; the President’s table. As Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale said yesterday, the security structures in this country are dysfunctional and they need a major surgery. It matters not whether those in charge of security are our relatives. It matters not whether they are our friends; it matters not whether they are our political debtors. We must do something to change the security structure of this country. Politics has always been there. Have you forgotten that the current President and his deputy went around the country for four years pretending they were praying when they were, in fact, campaigning for office? We did not complain, we did not see crime in it, why are they now complaining when CORD goes around with rallies and nobody in the CORD rallies - and I take except to a man I respect, calling your colleagues “a bunch of a few Senators”. We are not a “bunch”; we are your colleagues, perhaps more distinguished and more senior than you are. You should not use such despicable language against your colleagues especially when we are discussing a matter of loss of lives of innocent Kenyans who had no clue that there were murderers coming; who had no ability to prevent these murders and who, like all good Kenyans, knew that the state is there to protect them but it did not. That is the issue. I beg to support."
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