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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also equally condemn the heinous crime that was committed against innocent Kenyans in Mandera. In the history of all the times that there have been murders or even confrontation by jihadists or criminals, I have never seen a time when any one would shoot women. They let the women lie on their bellies with their hands at their backs and shot them at point blank range. Those people have no description. They are criminals of the lowest calibre and you cannot even start to describe them as religious fighters. They have no place in this world. Secondly, Muslims are as old as the history of this country. Christians are also as old as the history of this country and so I refuse to believe that the confrontation or the war that has been there at one time in this country is between those two faiths or any other faith. Thirdly - I have said this before and I will say it again – security is the duty of our law enforcement officers; the police, the defence forces and the Government but security is also a responsibility of the citizens. It is a responsibility of all of us. I am saying this because recently I was in Britain and I was very amazed when I was in that country. In Britain which is one of the most likely countries that terrorists may want to strike, all the policemen do not even carry a gun; they walk free. This is because when you enter into that country, anything that you do in that country is the responsibility of everybody and nobody waits for a policeman or any other uniformed officer to come and blame you. This is why we have to agree that security must be our culture. If we immediately start to trivialize this issue, for example, by asking where the President was when this was happening, it is of no consequence. We should ask ourselves what we will do. The President has an able deputy who is able to execute his role under our Constitution. We must own security and not even attempt to trivialize it or even tribalise it and speak as though a certain section of the community is being targeted. I support."
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