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    "id": 442852,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, listening to Sen. Wako, one would think if he was reincarnated, he would be a footballer or an athlete other than a lawyer. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for allowing me to move this Motion of Adjournment with a very heavy heart. Once again, we have witnessed a senseless murder of Kenyans in huge numbers. I am talking about what happened in Wajir over the weekend where we get from press reports that 20 innocent lives were lost in a senseless and avoidable attack between two clans. As I speak, news coming in is that another large number of Kenyans have lost lives in Lamu, in Witu. Reports filtering in indicated five then it moved to ten. Some of our supporters on the ground are saying the numbers could be higher. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also witnessed Baringo where we saw wanton destruction of property leading to loss of lives when one community turned against another community. This is going on and on and on. We are not counting the nameless and unidentified victims of violence in our poor neighbourhoods, in our slums and all over the country. In a nutshell, the security situation in the country has reached unacceptable levels. Last week we adjourned this House to talk about the massacre in Lamu, Mpeketoni. Each and every Member expressed disgust, outrage and dissatisfaction in the manner in which our security agencies are going about their work. Whether we are talking of intelligence gathering, intelligence sharing, intelligence dissemination or acting on that intelligence to forestall these ugly incidents. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it makes little sense for the Government of the day to come up and continue giving warnings that “this is intolerable, this will not be accepted, we are going to leave no stone unturned to catch up with the perpetrators”. However, people are dying, people are losing property and people are being displaced. When you look around the country, whether you are talking about Bungoma, Nyando and everywhere, lives are being lost. Yet we have a government that levies taxes from citizens and has a duty to protect them. We do not want to engage in endless blame 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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