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    "id": 631445,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Just allow me to react a little bit to what the Government Whip has said. The position is that the deputy governor of Mombasa County is working very well with the governor. We were with her during the campaign, sat with her at a venue and had a meal together with my leader here. What you have been seeing in the media is nothing but a figment of your imagination. She is a lady that I have known for a very long time and had no basis to lie to me. If you recall, whenever national leaders have had their security withdrawn wittingly or unwittingly, something always happens. Sen. Wetangula and I were involved in the trial and inquiries around the murder and disappearance of the late Dr. Robert Ouko. The first thing that happened was that his security was withdrawn. Subsequently, everybody knows what happened. When the late Mr. Tom Mboya was assassinated on the streets of Nairobi, he wittingly or unwittingly did not have his bodyguards. In fact, one of them was left crying around the then New Stanley Hotel. The rest is history.One can go on and on. If you look at the circumstances surrounding the assassination of Mr. J.M. Kariuki, the first thing that disappeared around him was security. So, this is not a light matter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the second issue why this matter is serious is that it is not just Governor Joho but other Government leaders have been killed, including very senior police officers particularly in the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and religious leaders. To have a person the calibre of a governor without security for whatever reason is something that the Government should try to look into as quickly as possible. In any case, I believe that that is not happening by accident or coincidence. There is a whole political project around it to try and intimidate Governor Joho. Let me finish by saying that this is something which should be of concern to us. We have lost so many leaders in this country and it is not just those three people that I talked about. Even the very first time that I came to Parliament, we lost Members of Parliament (MPs).That is why when President Kibaki came to power - more than any other President, he had been there for a long time - everybody was opposed to MPs having security, he came out openly and said that, yes, he supports the idea of MPs having their security. As Senators, we are even luckier because we get more security as compared to other MPs in the NationalAssembly. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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