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    "id": 442982,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/442982/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. G.G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 330,
        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, just like my honorable colleagues on the other side, I was thinking whether I should contribute to this Motion or not having talked about security for the whole of last week. In fact, every other day, we talk about security. The big question is: Does whatever we talk here have any bearing on what is happening? I get very disturbed. I appreciate the attitude this afternoon from the Senators that they appear to be thinking very critically about this nation. I think this should continue. The time for making statements just to be heard should now stop; the time for addressing the galleries and the public through the Senate about security needs to stop now because this matter is so serious. Madam Temporary Speaker, I listened to you when you were contributing and I was getting even more concerned to hear what you were saying but let us ask ourselves why we are in this situation. Is it that we just blame the Government and people who are in charge of the security organs? What is our contribution? Is it only the concern or do we have a pertinent idea that we want to sell to the Government or to the people concerned with this matter or do we just spend time speaking and that is all? Because of time, I was suggesting that we stop saying that this is non-partisan and so on but get to work. We should get the Members of the Opposition and Members of the other side to sit together as a Committee and form a research team which will give something to this nation so that we appear to the public to be interested in getting a solution to this matter. Just talking alone will not change anything. Just like we pass here Motions where we urge the Government, even today, we are just urging the Government. I am asking myself when are we going to tell the Government to do what we want to be done and it be done. I am not saying this from a point of ignorance. I have been in the Government and I know how the Government works. The Government can only work if you have a specific issue that you can put down and press on it. The Government would not accept to be seen by the people of Kenya that they do not want to do (a), (b) and (c). The Government is headed by politicians and we are also politicians here. Therefore we have to consider whether we are doing the right thing. Are we working together with the other House? There are two Committees; the National Security and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate and we have another one in the National 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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