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        "legal_name": "Christopher Mogere Obure",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I want to start by thanking Sen. Billow Kerrow for raising these concerns, initiating this Motion and executing it very effectively. I want to assure him that his concerns are also shared by very many Kenyans of goodwill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the objective and, indeed, the mandate of any Government anywhere in the world is, first and foremost, to protect the lives and property of its own citizens. In our case here in Kenya, this is achieved through the various institutions which are financed by the public, namely, the KPS, the KDF and the NIS. Their primary duty is to promote and guarantee security to all Kenyans. Despite the large amount of resources which have been made available to these institutions, in the last year or two, we have seen cases where we have lost many lives. We have seen serious violations of security in a number of our counties. We have seen problems in Baringo, West Pokot, Turkana, Tana River, Kitui, Bungoma and even in our own City, Nairobi, where people lost their lives and massive property destroyed. We have seen serious violations in Lamu and more recently, in Mandera. I do not have a chance to speak yesterday on a similar Motion, but in the case of the attacks in Mandera a few days ago, my own county and the neighbouring County of Nyamira lost eight lives. Some of these people were professionals; clinical officers working in Mandera, teachers employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to teach children in Mandera and Government officers. I want to take this opportunity to convey my personal condolences not only to the families of the deceased from Kisii and Nyamira, but all those who lost their lives in that incident. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the case of Lamu, the role of our security forces left much to be desired. The attacks took place at 8.00 p.m. and continued to 3.00 a.m. Not a single attempt was made to respond. Innocent people were killed and property destroyed and nothing significant was done by the police. Up to this day, we really do not know who the perpetrators were. There were even suspicions of complicity from among our own security forces in the case of Lamu. These are serious issues where the lives of innocent people are lost without good cause. 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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