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    "id": 504620,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we ought to say it the way it is. The responsibility of security is not a shared responsibility between the Opposition and the Government. The Government is solely responsible. No Member of the Opposition sits in any security committee or gives any command to any person in the security organ. Therefore, the Government is responsible today, tomorrow and the day after. The Government must take responsibility. The Government is obviously again going to pay lip service. The last time there was a tragedy like this or any other, I remember that in Makueni when people died, the Government offered assistance which never came through. This is because the Government does not realize that; like yesterday when you saw a gentleman from Rift Valley who was killed and his wife and their nine month old baby were expecting him, the multiplier effect of the incompetence of the security machinery in this Government is hurting this country. We must say it because the people in Government are saying; let us talk, because this is a matter between everybody. When we asked the Government as CORD to sit down and have national dialogue, they rubbished us. When 28 people are shot in cold blood and the Al-Shabaab shoot in the air to celebrate killing Kenyans, now it is time for people to talk. We must say it; that you can address all press conferences with ipads and everything else in the world but the function of security in this Republic and the blood of those 28 people who died is squarely in the hands of the Jubilee Government. We must blame them because other than providing security, they should prevent crime. Lastly, unless we go back to the law and unless action is taken on the people who are charged with the responsibility of security, this is going to happen again. It does not matter whether we sit in Harambee Avenue or State House Avenue, those people need to go home and the people in Mandera who are responsible for security must show Kenyans that people can take responsibility. Those are the first people who should be fired or in fact taken to court because where there is theft in estates, watchmen are taken to court because they failed to prevent crime. If we have people responsible for security and people are killed in the manner they were, those people who are charged with that responsibility ought to be in court because they have failed."
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