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    "id": 526195,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to eulogize a close friend. I send my condolences to the family of my brother, the late Hon. Muchai, his two body guards and his driver. I have known Hon. George Muchai for over 25 years, when I acted for him and a group of his then young trade unionists, Francis Atwoli, Okwara and others. He has since remained a very close friend. The incident of his shooting reads like a gangland movie where somebody just walks to a car and pumps off bullets into people without any resistance. This is an event that must be condemned, more particularly that it happened as his family was watching in a vehicle behind his car. The trauma that the family must be going through is beyond anybody’s comprehension. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as this has happened, there is bound to be a lot of speculation, rumours, half-truths and so on. I want to take the opportunity to urge the ongoing investigation by the police to avoid sending wrong signals and red herrings like we are seeing. How can the police tell us that two women were hijacked, tied up in the boot of the car, heard gun shots and those gun shots must be the ones that killed Hon. Muchai, from the boot of a car? This is foreclosing an open investigation. We want the investigators to have an open mind, follow every lead and avoid investigating a matter of this nature in the Press. They can give updates on what they are doing but they cannot act the way they are acting. It will probably make those who shot our brother to sit and enjoy themselves, knowing very well that the police are headed in the wrong direction. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the case of Hon. Muchai is a case for the whole of Kenya. We have heard many cases and I am quite sure that the day Hon. Muchai was shot, many other Kenyans elsewhere were shot by thugs. The country has been taken over by armed criminals, shooting and maiming people at will and all we see is the Jubilee Government pretending that the problem with security is about the law and not about the lack of the will to enforce the law that is already there. The killings in Mandera did not happen because there was no law; the shooting of clerics in Mombasa is not because there has been no law; the killing of Hon. Muchai is not because there is no law; it is the lack of the will to enforce the law. I saw some footage today on Citizen TV in which the police, who themselves said they “teargased” children on Lang’ata road and even dismissed one of their own, now coming up with a new footage saying that it is an activist called Irungu who teargased the children. When such things happen, the public starts losing faith in the security apparatus in the country. The police work under very difficult circumstances. They are poorly paid, poorly housed, poorly equipped and unappreciated, among other things. However, within those difficult circumstances, they can do better. We want to urge that security for Sen. 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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