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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ong’era",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to also express my shock and sympathy to the families of the victims of the tragic ongoing crisis in Garissa. It is very sad that today we have lost 15 people in Garissa as at now. Out of the 15, four of them are personnel officers. A further 550 people are still unaccounted for. It grieves me that as we speak, the terrorists are profiling the hostages between Muslims and non Muslims. We have spoken about these issues of insecurity for a very long time. I know that even as we run our house – we are privileged that you are sitting there as a lady – we know that when we try to put a chair somewhere and find out that it does not fit there, you have to find a solution. What we do is to remove that chair and, maybe, bring a straight chair if the other one was a low one. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have found out that the military is not suited to deal with terrorism issues in this country. What the President ought to do in this instance is to leave the military alone because they are not trained to deal with terrorism. I, therefore, welcome what you and other speakers; the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders suggested that it is high time we had a special unit trained to deal with the issues of terrorism in this country. Insecurity in Kenya, as has been pointed out, is the norm rather than the exeption. It seems that it is falling on deaf ears of my Jubilee Coalition counterparts. I sympathize with the Senator for Nyeri when he says that we need to take a bipartisan approach. We would want to do so because insecurity is a national issue. However, we cannot take it 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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