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    "id": 442942,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. First of all, I want to appreciate the by-partisan manner in which this debate is being held because unless we do that, we are not going to resolve the more important problems that confront the nation today. If you look at Article 238 of the Constitution, it requires of the national security organs of the state to protect the territorial integrity of Kenya against external and internal threats, and also protect the people. On that account alone, it must be admitted that there is some degree of failure because constantly, we are hearing these tragic events of lives and property being lost and destroyed. There are also invasions into our territory. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the principal objectives of our security organs is to protect the people and not just to protect the state so that when the NIS is saying that they had advance information like in the case of Mpeketoni and also in the case of Westgate attack, and gave it to security organs or other people in the Government but they did give the people that information - I think that is total failure. It is important that if they indeed had information that there are going to be attacks in Mpeketoni, just like the Americans are doing to their citizens whether they are in Kenya or in the United States of America (USA), they would normally warn them that there is an imminent danger to their lives so that they can avoid certain areas. Constantly, every time NIS is speaking, they say they gave information but nobody put any regard to it. 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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