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    "id": 504575,
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    "speaker_name": "November 25, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 36 Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity because I find myself in the unique position that I am responsible for more dead bodies in Mandera than any of my colleagues in the Senate. My condolences go to all the members of the families that have been affected. I want to start by informing my brother, Sen. Murkomen, that I washed the body of Kipchirchir from Elgeyo-Marakwet. So, when you stand here and you want to move this House to believe that our people died because of religion, you are playing in the same hands that the Al Shabaab would like us to play into. These are criminals from Somalia who, the Jubilee Government has refused to use the intelligence at hand to contain. They come in this country to advance their agenda of attempting to set Christians against Muslims. It cannot work that way. Let me tell you why. We were in a pub with a Member of Parliament from the Lower House who, on the eve of the attack, had protection by six Administration Police (APs) in the hotel where they were. The officer in charge of security on the ground told them “ Waheshimiwa, leo ni kubaya, go to your hotel, I am giving you security”. They knew before our people died that the incident was going to take place. If you are truly patriotic the way you are saying, you should be asking the Government why they did not escort this bus instead of trying to set up Christians against Muslims. We are adults and mature than some Members in this House. We want to bring our country together. Dr. Martin Luther King said that if you do not accept to live as brothers, be prepared to perish together. We are all going to perish. The truth is; as we speak now, the pictures that the Deputy President gave to the House were taken on 3rd May, 2013. They were drawn from an Amison album. That is what they are feeding Kenya on. What kind of cowardice is this when our people have died? We want responsibility in leadership. Even if we did not vote for this Government, our people deserve to be protected and at the very worst to empathize with them. Today information moves very fast. We have information, which we have reason to believe, that as this problem took place, the President was enjoying the Grand Prix - Formula One - in Abu Dhabi. There are pictures being circulated around. This country remembers that when PCEA members perished in Tanzania, the Government moved and took choppers there to bring them back. In Westgate, there was outpouring of grief and people even prepared food for the survivors and rescuers. Today, the Kisiis and Luhya at Chiromo Mortuary, where I have been for three days, do not even have a half a pint of drinking water from the Jubilee Government of the Republic of Kenya. This is not a joke. As a leadership, you are now setting communities in Kenya against each other because they will hate each other. Please, keep that money of yours, we are organizing ourselves as the government of Kakamega. We will take our dead home and bury them in our poverty. We do not like this kind of crocodile tears. This is not a joke. In Mandera, 80 per cent of teachers there are Christians. The parents of those children would not come and kill the same teachers who teach their children. There was a clinical officer from Kisii who has been treating the children of the Somalis in Mandera. They would not want to kill daktari. You have refused to keep away the Al Shabaab who came into our country. 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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