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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, this afternoon, the President issued a Statement. He offered condolences but refused to reassure the country whether there are any hostages or not. The media houses are reporting that some of our students are being held hostage. The President needed to make it clear. Instead, he went on and broke the law. He has reversed a decision of the High Court that the recruitment of the last batch of police officers was done in the wrong manner. Instead, without the Attorney General (AG) advising him to appeal, he has ordered and dictated that the recruitment should go on. Mr. President must submit himself to the rule of law. Lastly, Madam Temporary Speaker, the Senate Majority Leader has told us that because terrorism is an international problem - it is happening in Yemen, Tunisia and Iraq - we should accept it. We cannot accept terrorism because it is happening elsewhere. We do not want it to happen anywhere else, least of all, Kenya. Madam Temporary Speaker, I end by congratulating the locals in Garissa. I have photographs coming from Garissa District Hospital; a former provincial hospital. Locals, mainly Muslims, are flogging into the hospital to donate blood. That is very commendable. Cowards who think that terrorists were doing it in the name of a Jihad, the same Muslims believe in the same Islam that the terrorists purport to use as a disguise to perpetuate their criminal activities. Madam Temporary Speaker, on the issue of radicalisation, if any opponent of those who demand that there must be no radicalisation in any centre in the country had reason to doubt us, now that the attack has been towards the age-mates of the youth who are being radicalised, the supporters or opponents of the fight against radicalisation should rethink. This time round, they went for the top of the cream of our youth at the universities. That is very sad. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) sent out an alert two weeks ago. The alert was circulated on the social media; Facebook and twitter . We all read it. The alert said there was an eminent attack on a university in Kenya. The University of Nairobi responded by sending a circular cautioning students. If the Government – which is the same one that gave the alert – was aware, why did it not beef up security around the universities, especially Garissa University which is very close to Somalia? Madam Temporary Speaker, I condemn the attack and support that we go for recess."
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