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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a special issue. To lose five children is horrendous. Sen. Cheruiyot and I were in Kayole last Sunday and there were many complaints about the abduction of children around Nairobi. It is worrying that one would think that this phenomenon was happening around urban areas because one would hide in buildings but it is now happening in villages, for instance, Nandi Hills. As the Chair gives chance to the Chairperson to respond to this issue, this cannot be a normal question and it is not a normal situation in the country. The number of lives we have lost are too high. To even imagine that children are being abducted is worse. We as lawyers have come from the situation of the slain advocate Willy Kimani. He was well known to me and the Chair because we were in the university almost at the same period. I do not know if it is a reaction of the Chair that will suffice. If anything, I will request that the Chair relooks at this issue and perhaps comes up with a Motion. The seeker of the Statement who is the Chair or the Chairperson of the Committee should request that we form a special joint committee of the National Assembly and the Senate to look at this issue of abduction of persons with an intention of getting money from people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee should consider whether the police is an accomplice or whether some bad elements within the police force are accomplices to this matter. There is a worldwide wave of police irresponsibility. I watched President Obama last night speaking in Dallas in the commemoration of the five policemen who were killed. The rogue policemen killed black people in America but the American society from Donald Trump, despite the fact that he is running against the Democrats, to Hillary Clinton and President of the United States of America stopped the blame game of complaining about President Obama’s Government or the democrats and sat down as a collective society to ask themselves what they can do to get rid of such problems. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is not time for blame games and we need to sit as the Senate and the National Assembly. It has become normal to read in the newspapers that a person has been abducted and killed. We must do something. I thank the Chair of the Committee for coming up with this question. However, it should be more than a question brought by the Chair of the Committee. We must take action as Parliament. Thank you."
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