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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am happy that the information is out in the public. I had a letter on WhatsApp which I circulated to the CORD Senators even before it was reported. That shows the manner in which we have treated this issue casually because I had the information. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also had the letter that was written to the University of Nairobi regarding security way before the Garissa attack. It is a good thing that we are debating this issue. Whether the young man is guilty or not, the fact is that there is smoke; we must look for the fire. I have no hesitation, particularly from the experience of the people we buried in Makueni, to say that everybody in this Parliament must be vetted. We must check because the implication of not doing anything would result in what we saw in Garissa. This is the only place you can walk in, walk out, there is no record, there is no CCTV and nobody knows anything and yet this is an institution where leaders are seated and where the President comes to address the nation. We have no security measures in place. Simply frisking people at the gate – I would like to tell Sen. Musila – is not good enough and can never be good enough. If, for example, a person was to stand at the gate of the KICC with a rocket propelled hand grenade, it would get right into this building. Why are we so concerned about somebody passing through the gate and yet from KICC across the road, this building can be bombed? If a person was on Parliament Road in a traffic jam and decided to turn their vehicle and ram into this building, they would end up at where the Speaker is seated. That is what I am calling negligence of the highest order. In contributing to this Motion, I want to say that our students are in danger; colleges in Migori and Nairobi are closing and, one time, nobody will go to school because of these people. We must as the Senate start taking action and vet everybody. If this gentleman is involved with a terror organization, he must be ruthlessly dealt with together with his associates. Whether he is a Muslim or not, all of us have the right to life and, therefore, the fact of religion does not supersede that provision of law that gives us the right to live in this country until God decides otherwise."
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