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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to take this opportunity to call on Kenyans to stand in solidarity with the families that are bereaved and to give the police the space and time to tell us what happened. It is encouraging, at least from what we are reading from the Press, that hopefully, we might be told who killed George Muchai. I think that is the least that we expect from our police force. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a few weeks ago, some gunmen went into a media house and killed 19 people in France in one of the most horrific attacks on a media house in the world in modern times. A few days later, the suspected gunmen were cornered in a building and they were all shot dead. I say so because as we mourn Hon. George Muchai, the country is confronted with a paradox. On the one hand, we want to ensure that we have a Constitution that is respected, including the civil liberties and the procedural guarantees of accused persons but on the other hand, we have seen that some times in extreme circumstances, there is need to balance the procedural guarantees with the greater good of public security. I would not be surprised if what happened in France four weeks ago had happened in Kenya; some of my colleagues whom I cannot name because I do not want to jeopardise my relationship with them, would have been doing “press ups”."
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