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    "id": 543533,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in Trans-Nzoia County, we lost nine people. My own constituency lost two people – one Mr. Oliver Maina and one Ms. Diana. It is so painful. The victims were young Kenyans who had gone to seek knowledge for a better future. Unfortunately, they went home in coffins. The victims in my constituency were from very poor backgrounds. If you got the opportunity to read today’s newspaper, you must have learnt that some of them could not even get a place to be buried. The mother of Mr. Oliver Maina is a single parent who sold everything to pay school fees for her son, so that he could improve their welfare. Unfortunately, he was taken back in a coffin. It is the responsibility of the Government to provide security. What happened? The Al Shabaab tried to speak to the parents of their victims before killing them. They spoke to a parent of one victim and told him: “We are killing your children today. Tell the president to withdraw the military from Somalia.” It is high time we did a monitoring and evaluation report as well as a cost-benefit analysis to see whether we should continue having our military forces in Somalia or we should withdraw them. It is so painful. We cannot continue losing lives. We saw it at Westgate, Mpeketoni, Mandera and Garissa. For how long are we going to mourn? This is the time we must make a decision. It is very painful to lose our loved ones. We condemn those acts of terrorism. For heaven’s sake, could our colleagues from the North Eastern region name the financiers and sympathisers immediately? If possible, they should help the police in investigation so that we get to know the people who are killing Kenyans. It is so unfortunate and painful. This is the time we should come together as a nation. We should not politicise the matter; we should have a solution instead. I have no words. Tomorrow, it might be here in Parliament. What should we do? Where was the National Intelligence Service (NIS)? The NIS was responsible for gathering information to mitigate such risks. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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