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    "id": 543929,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I thank Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale for moving this Motion of Adjournment and the Chair for allowing us to debate this important matter. It is disheartening to see the Government benches vacant when we are discussing such a critical matter. I saw a picture of a young man on the front page of one of the papers. This is a young man I have seen around and I know him. If this is a question of mistaken identity, then I pity him. However, if this is founded on information, then we are living in very dangerous times. Even the information available as to how the police have handled the matter is frighteningly incompetent. The police have been regularly requesting the administration of Parliament whether they should arrest the young man or not. In a matter such as this, it does not matter whether it was me, the Speaker, a Senator or anybody else. Where lives of Kenyans are in danger or imminent danger, you do not need anybody’s permission to arrest or interrogate somebody. This is very shocking. I hope this is not a case of mistaken identity. In 1975, in Lebanon, a terrorist drove a truck into Parliament, bombed it and killed everybody including my friend, Amin Gemayel, who would have become the President of that country. The entire Members of Parliament died with one stroke. In Iran, you may recall, that the only survivors who escaped the bomb was Rafsanjani, who had walked across the street with some three Members for tea. Everybody else died. Somebody drove a truck full of Carbon IED explosives and bombed Parliament and everybody died. The terrorists here have now almost exhausted soft targets. They have hit shopping malls and killed women and children while shopping. They have hit universities and killed innocent children. Now, they must be looking at serious targets and what better target than Parliament; the seat of leadership. We have been saying, from the alternative leadership in this country and good people like Sen. G.G. Kariuki have agreed with us that the management of our security structure is not what it used to be. People are playing games with security. We discussed here, this afternoon, how you can allow a Presidential plane fly into a war zone and cowardly turn back. We have been crying and saying that the Government should invest in intelligence. 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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