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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wangari",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. First, I thank the Senator for Mandera for bringing this Motion to this House regarding a matter of national importance. I also join my colleagues in sending my condolences to the families which lost their kin this morning. It is a song we have sung in this House over and over. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, out of the 14 people who were killed yesterday, half of them were from Nyeri County. It is not just chang’aa or second generation alcohol that is finishing our people. We have lost so many lives and we must come to a point where we do not tell Kenyans that we saved 136 people. We need to tell them that we lost 14 lives, because it cannot be equated to saying that we did our job by saving 136 people. Every life is important. We are talking of young widows in Nyeri that have been left to cater for their children. Some of these people had left Kieni Constituency, which is semi- arid, to look for bread and butter for their children. We have said that terrorism is not a Kenyan issue. Just the other day – and it is not to justify what has happened – we saw what happened around the world. In Tunisia, for example, someone just opened fire on people who were relaxing on a beach. Terrorism is a global problem, but there is a way we must deal, as a country, with our own problems. We must not take this issue as a joke, as we are doing. Just as we have treated the issue of illicit brews, we must tell the President that insecurity is getting out of hand. There are so many children who are out of school, not only in northern Kenya, but also in Baringo and Samburu counties. These children deserve education and to be in school because they are not lesser than other children. In fact, recently I heard a woman asking on television for women to be given guns since the men are almost finished. When I see those scenes, I am heartbroken because it should not have come to this level. Today I have seen the Cabinet Secretary address the nation and say that we did not have intelligence reports regarding this incident. It is not good to tell the nation that we did not have intelligence reports. Why did we not have them? We are taking lives as a joke. We should own up as a Government that we have failed with regard to this problem. We have called meetings and even changed the Cabinet Secretary. However, I think it has dawned on us that even if you change the Cabinet Secretary, the system remains the same. The people who were sleeping in adjacent houses yester night had realized the danger that they were facing because they are not natives. Even the Government knows that if someone is from upcountry and works in Mandera that person is not safe. That is in the public domain. Those people even made it easier for the Government to provide them with security by pooling together and sleeping in adjacent houses. However, they were attacked and we are not told how the KDF responded. We have not been told why we did not have intelligence reports. It is not easy to guard people in the face of new terrorism that is evolving every day. Whereas we commend what the Government is doing, we must not only talk about 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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