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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "The leader was there. A leader can never be absent. Power hates vacuum. I rise to second and tell the Leader of Majority Party that hon. Nyenze here has an able assistant. He does not need one. Even you, you need to tell yours to be available all the time. Hon. Speaker, I rise to second. I only want to say that I agree with everything as said by the Leader of Majority Party. I think Parliament needs to be here to deal with a few issues, especially this one on the nomination of our colleague Maj-Gen. Nkaissery. That is because as it were, there are vacant offices to deal with security. My interpretation of the situation is that our country is under some attack. We need to deal with that issue in a bipartisan manner and I think both sides should be in agreement. I want to take this opportunity to send my sympathies to hon. Kanini Kega and the people of Kieni and Nyeri in general who bore the brunt of the attacks. If you remember, Kieni just buried two ladies the other day over the first attack in Mandera and now they are going to bury 16 others. I think the House can only sympathise with them. Therefore, we need to do what we normally do as a House to show Kenyans that, at least, this House cares. I want to tell hon. Kanini Kega my colleague that we are truly sorry. We need to be here as a House to help the country deal with this problem. Even though we are faced with this, we can overcome it if we all work together. I believe that the solution is within this House. My belief is that despite the fact that ole Lenku and Kimaiyo are gone, I do not think they were the problem. I think we need to sort out the structural security problems. It is upon us. When you say all the time that we do not want constitutional reforms, if we do nothing else in terms of constitutional reforms, then we must do something about the security chapter. We must. We did an experiment which is not working. In my constituency of Gem, people were killed two nights ago; the same night people were killed in Mandera. We must sort out the differences between the Administration Police (AP) and the regular police. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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