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    "id": 504588,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kittony",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zipporah Jepchirchir Kittony",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Allow me to congratulate you for joining the Speaker’s Panel. I would like to also join the rest of my colleagues to send my condolences to the bereaved families who have lost their loved ones. This is very sad because the rate of crime in this country is going up every day. It needs our concerted effort to fight this crime and to bring stability. We, as the leadership of this country, we cannot look like we are in contest and playing a football match when we know that we have lost very many people because of selfish motives, people who do not care for human life that is God given. It is our concerted effort that we sober up as mature people and fight this crime. I feel very disheartened and saddened, when I see as if we are not serious about what is happening around us. The life we are living is becoming very scaring especially even when using public means of transport. They started by undressing women and many bad things are happening. We really need to come up with good solutions which can help us to reduce the ills that are creeping into this country- I do not know by what means but it is very disturbing that instead of us approaching it in a sober manner, we seem as if we are joking. We have lost one person from our county in this incident, a very capable young graduate who had gone to assist the people of Mandera in educating their children, she was one of them. It is not really a community issue; these are Kenyans that we have lost. So, let us approach it as all Kenyans regardless of where we come from. I remember sometime back I said that women of this country are going through very painful times because they go through painful labor. They also go through pain when they lose their loved ones at the prime age when they are supposed to be giving back to the development of this country. What we are experiencing at the moment is not good for anybody. It is for us to come out as leaders of this country, to approach this soberly so that we are able to know where the problem is coming from. We cannot do it with emotions or blaming one another; this will not help us. We need sanity to bring back our lost glory by approaching these issues of insecurity in a sober manner so that we save the situation. 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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