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    "id": 543921,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to contribute to this Adjournment Motion because we recall, when this issue was mentioned yesterday, that an employee of the Senate is a member of a group that is outlawed and is engaged in terror activities in the country, it was a shock. Again, today in the newspapers, we were made aware that for over ten years, the said officer has been under surveillance, which means that the leadership of the Senate, Parliament and of this country possibly were aware. We have come through a series of deaths that have shocked our nation. In 2013 we lost innocent people at the Westgate Mall terror attack. These are people who walked to the shopping mall to buy goods, food stuffs for their children and do the normal shopping. Recently, a group of innocent students in a university in Garissa – Garissa is in Kenya and we would want to “plant” a university in every county as we passed in this Senate - you recall that last year we resolved that every county has to have a public university funded by public coffers. For the first time, the former North Eastern Province was going to have the first inaugural university, a public university that was mentored by Moi University, but lives of innocent children were lost because of the Al- Shabaab. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should not take it for granted when information has been passed. I do not know whether our officers take it seriously because we hear that information had been given to Garissa University that an attack could have happened any time and it was just ignored. We are now reading that for some time, this said officer has been on radar. Whose radar? If it had actually been known that he was associated with that, what were we waiting for? As Kenyans we must wake up and forget the cocoons where we are hiding and begin to treat our people properly. This officer was supposed to be rescued many years ago and reformed, if he is a Kenyan. Completely reformed by detox – removing bad manners from him or her. “Detoxination,” that is what we are supposed to have done."
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