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    "id": 464274,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "My contention, and I believe it is one shared by most Members here, is that security in Kenya has become a national issue. The same way we are able to use Standing Order No.1 to allow the Auditor-General to come here and give us issues relating to matters that concern the Kenyan public, I beseech you through the Office of the Speaker, that we should have a similar session. If you look at our country in the last three months, the truth is that many parts of Kenya have now simply become death and torture chambers. The hon. Bare Shill has just raised a matter where schools and hospitals have been closed. Security is no longer a matter that we can gloss over. I am requesting through you, and I have written to the substantive Speaker on this matter, that on regular intervals we must be able to convert this House into a Committee of the whole House, so that we interrogate the people whose primary duty is to provide security for our people. Nobody is spared, Members of this House have been affected and even the President’s cousin was affected. If I ask Members here, for the last three months almost every county has been affected by security issues. It is no longer a matter that we can come here, engage the Chairman of the Committee on Administration and National Security, who really has no duty to provide security for us and think that matters are well. All is not well; we have to change the rules of the game to tackle the issue of security in Kenya in a manner that we engage directly with those responsible for this purpose."
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