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    "id": 511048,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gethenji",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Ndungu Gethenji",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I thank you for giving me the chance to contribute to this Bill. This nation is facing an existential threat to peace and security in this country and its very existence. In the last 13 months, this House has approved the intervention of the Kenya Defence Forces in internal security situations. This indicates very clearly to a failure of the internal security mechanism to securitise the people of this country. It also points to a failure of the security architecture that governs the security sector in this country. We cannot sit here anymore while the nation burns and the people are crying out for security and pontificate, equivocate and prevaricate on matters of security. We cannot sit here and pretend to discuss and sympathise with insecurity, terror and terrorists in the guise of defending civil liberties. That cannot be counternized. I heard hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona asking what is offensive. It is very clear! Anything that we will not allow our five-year old daughter to witness in the newspaper or on television is offensive. To see dead Kenyans being portrayed there like dead cattle is offensive to any normal Kenyan. On 21st September 2013, terrorist and gunmen walked into Westgate Mall and killed 61 Kenyans and six security officers. On 15th to 17th June, 2014, 60 people were executed by what is now coming out as a combination of local separatists, Al-Shabaab, and some politically motivated and misguided individuals. These Kenyans were called out of their homes by name. Their hands were bound behind their backs and their throats slit like chicken. Those who did not die from those wounds were executed by gunshots to the head. 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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