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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this Bill. First of all, I want to start from the memorandum of objects and reasons. It says that the Security Laws (Amendments) Bill, 2014 is in keeping with the practice of making minor amendments which do not merit the publication of a separate Bill and consolidating them into one Bill. Even from that memorandum of objects alone, are we sure that we are just making minor amendments? The answer is no. We are making fundamental amendments to various laws which even go a long way through backdoor into amending our Constitution. It is my belief that this Bill could only be passed during the times of Kariuki Chotara and Mulu Mutisya but not in a civilized period, developed democracy, like where the Member for Suba seats. It is going to be of great stress to me to be a Member of the Eleventh Parliament with all the knowledge in my head that a Bill such as this will go through this House during my time as a Member for Parliament for Suba. How I wish I was not in this Parliament. Allow me to say the following: Yes, I have heard reasoning from the other side of the political divide and a few Members from the CORD Coalition, who I do not know for what reason, appear to be confused. The reasoning has been that we are fighting terrorism and we want to secure this country. Not even for a single day have I believed that the insecurity that we are facing in this country is as a result of weak laws. If that were the case, then the insecurity in Mandera and Mpeketoni were as a result of external aggression; people from outside. Why have we not amended the KDF Act? That would have gone to the heart of addressing terrorists who are coming from the neighboring countries to attack our country. You cannot amend the internal laws to protect our territory and our country from external aggression. Therefore, this is mischief. There is no way you can explain to me that by the Cabinet Secretary, through a Gazette Notice, designating areas and times which public meetings, gatherings or processions may be held it is going to protect the people who are working at a quarry in Mandera from being attacked by Al Shaabab from outside this country. Let us face facts. This Government is hell bent on taking us back, not even to the 1990s, but we are going back to the 1980s and even before. Someone said to the discomfort of some of us that we are witnessing a situation where the reign of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and that of Mzee Moi are coming back. It is true. We have the biological son of Jomo Kenyatta as President and the political son of Moi as the Deputy President."
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