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    "id": 506049,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see Sen. Hassan smiling and I am happy that he can still afford a smile after such serious threats. Sen. Hassan and I are avid users of the social media. He has the third highest followers after I and one other on Twitter and on Facebook. He is equally followed by so many people. He is a politician that I have always said has a very great future in politics. I usually joke that he needs a bit of pruning here and there, but he is going very far. The problem with this country, particularly with regard to the use of social media is that there are people who think that they can post anything that they want to say and write anything that they want to write and get away with it. The problem with the security system in this country is that they do not take things that are in social media as seriously they do those things that were said through television or through the media, yet it is a medium. I could have said it by texting, posting on Facebook or Twitter or saying it publicly on television, radio or anywhere. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for anyone to wish somebody else to die, or that somebody else should be killed, is sufficient to charge that person with attempted murder; contemplating to kill a Senator. These things are serious. Sen. Hassan and other people who use social media will tell you that we are the people who withstand the highest amount of vitriol spewed on us through social media. We, as politicians, have been very patient. People call you all kinds of things. They even sometimes call your mother, relatives, brothers and sisters. However, when they cross the line to go to the extent of pre-meditating and planning to terminate the life of another person, it must be taken seriously. That is why he should record the same statement that he gave the DPP with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The CID section that deals with digital issues and social media must track those people, arrest and charge them with attempted murder. If we do not do that, we will continue encouraging all kinds of characters to use social media to issue threats or otherwise. I have seen even my colleagues, who are Members of Parliament, writing things that you could never even have contemplated. You would never have contemplated a Member of Parliament writing something about another tribe 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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