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    "id": 442437,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Kennedy Mong'are Okong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if my memory serves me right, we have adjourned over five times in this House to debate matters insecurity. However, we have not seen any concrete outcome on that. It is sad that after over five occasions we are again here, mourning the loss of innocent lives at Mpeketoni. My worry is: Even 12 hours after deploying security forces on the ground, the goons could come back and hit, and the relevant agencies and institutions do not care. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wondered a while ago, when a Member of this House tried to absolve the Al Shabaab, when all networks in the world have captured them owning up for that massacre at Mpeketoni. It is sad and unfortunate. That Member who rose here to mention that the Al Shabaab is not involved must move to the Government and report, because it seems he knows how they operate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me reiterate the sentiments of my fellow Senators in this House. We only have one nation and motherland. If it means that those who bear the highest responsibility, be it in CORD or the ruling Government, should sit and put the interest of the nation ahead, so be it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to reiterate what the other Members have said. But the security agencies in this country must up their game. The Committees in charge of security in this House must also take necessary steps. Even our colleagues in the National Assembly should also take action and come up with the relevant Motions of impeachment or censure of the relevant Cabinet Secretaries in charge, especially my good friend, the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of the National Government. I think that the other Motions which came to the National Assembly were misguided. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, let me mourn with my colleagues and pray that those who lost their lives rest in peace. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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