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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bedzimba",
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        "legal_name": "Rashid Juma Bedzimba",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to pass my appreciation to my brother, hon. Alfred Keter for bringing this Motion to the House. If there is anything that has probably received more reason for adjournment in this House, then they are issues to do with security and insecurity in general in this country. This in itself should be a wake-up call to the Government on how serious this House takes these matters. In as much as we know that we have the bad elements amongst us, there is no society where there is no bad element. My concern is the reaction that the security forces have undertaken. We have now seen roadblocks being turned into toll stations. After the Westgate attack, independent reviews and sources were clear enough to indicate and to prove that the residents of Eastleigh ended up being profiled. After the Lamu incident, the most that has happened is a curfew that is now lasting four months. After Kapedo, the most that is happening right now is that the Kenya Defence Forces are going in and the reaction that is going on is bad. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to speak on behalf of the constituents of Mvita and Mombasa. For some reason, the security forces have now decided to come up with an unlawful state of emergency that, by seven o’clock in the evening, people are not allowed to step out of their houses. You start to wonder what words you can use to console a parent whose child has been arrested and tomorrow they have to go and do examinations. You wonder what you are going to tell a newlywed couple who spent a night in jail and the people who were out there celebrating their wedding. You wonder what words you are going to tell people who simply gathered somewhere and some officer decided that they were not meant to be there. This is the state and the situation that we are in. I have said it before, that it is impossible for all of us to be bad. I have actually The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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