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    "content": "You see hon. Members, when you say that you want to go and investigate crime and even visit volatile areas, you will require protection. So, I do not know how much money Parliament can be given that is sufficient to give every committee, policemen and squadrons to allow them to investigate including exhuming bodies. You know, I am just telling you this because of the futility of this particular process. This is because you will go to that place but this incident happened as she says on 13th October. The hon. Lati asked for this Statement on 27th of March. You announce that you are going to visit the area. You will find just a crowd of 1,000 people and then you say you are investigating when you invite members of the public. That will just be a public baraza or rally. This is because investigations are not done that way. So, even as you wish Parliament to avail resources, there must be a limit. Yes, I agree it is fair to visit various areas to go and see for yourself what is happening but to claim that you are there to investigate is not right. You know the kind of investigation Parliament engages in is one in which recommendations will be made for implementation by other agencies of Government, which will include among others a recommendation to do investigation with a view to making arrests. So, I think we must appreciate. It is true committees can visit but it is visit with a view to establishing certain basics. If you say that you are going to visit Maralal on a given day, I can assure you hon. Lentoimaga you will find a crowd and then you will begin your investigations. I do not know but maybe your clerks will begin taking minutes. I do not know when you will finish that kind of investigation. So, in as much as I appreciate that there is need to go to certain localities, I think it is for the committees to familiarise themselves with some of the issues that have been raised, particularly difficulties encountered with regard to carrying out investigations to ascertain whether or not indeed the agencies of Government required to come up with proper investigations are well equipped. However, to undertake to go and find out who killed who, surely then I doubt that. There is no Parliament that I know of that ever does that kind of thing; to begin to take statements under oath and other cautionary statements. Hon. Maanzo finds it extremely interesting that a committee could engage in that kind of activity. However, there is need if for instance there are certain issues which prevent those agencies from carrying out their proper functions. I think that is what the Committee would go and find out. If this incident happened so long ago, why is it that no arrests and no proper reports have been made? However, you see it cannot be that the Committee is going to try to find out who killed who. You will never come back. They will be there for the rest of this session and even when we go for recess in December, you will still not have finished because you do not have the wherewithal to go and undertake that kind of activity. I would want to hear hon. Asman Kamama respond to the various clarifications sought."
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