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    "id": 507532,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank all the Members who have contributed to this Motion, including the amendments that have been made which will have the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations and the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee investigate the circumstances under which these incidences have occurred. Also important is that they also need to check whether there were failures in the institutional command or operational structure. Some of the things that many Kenyans do not know is that even when the Cabinet Secretary or the Inspector- General may be meaning well, if the command structures, the people who are actually responsible down in Nairobi all the way to Mandera are not doing their bit, there is likelihood that we may not succeed. I want to take this opportunity to send my condolences to the families of the people who were killed last night in an incident that many of us from Mandera believe was preventable because information was relayed and no action was taken. Even when they called for assistance, an hour even before the first gun shots were heard in town, there was no one from the security forces who went to secure them. Eventually when the gun shots started and everyone in town said: “These people must be killing those people, can people go and help?” There was nobody until morning. So, from 2.00 a.m. when that place was surrounded and the first report was raised, nobody went to assist until 6.00 a.m. when there was sunlight. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the people are a very worried lot. There is a lot of anxiety. People are dissolutioned because if these incidences are happening every day, and do not forget there have been explosions almost every other day before that, there is a lot of anxiety. People are fearing because there are messages from the Al Shabaab that they are, in fact, going to attack the town. I mentioned here last week when I moved the Motion that there were reports that the intelligence have got that these people are even threatening to attack the town. That is how serious this matter is. With all the public servants leaving and the level of insecurity, we are concerned that Mandera might become a ghost town if this situation continues. 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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