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    "id": 672970,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'- Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a very important issue and I would like to pick up from where Sen. Ongoro anchored. We Senators and Members of the National Assembly have no time or skill to look into this matter. We shall depend on evidence given to us by those in Government to make decisions. Why go around it? I believe that we have a National Intelligence Service (NIS) which is a great improvement on the former Special Branch whose responsibility is to provide intelligence to Government in all sectors of life; economy, security and defence. We also have the military police who give special intelligence to the military. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Government has necessary arms that can deal with this issue. What we should recommend along the lines of Sen. Ongoro is for the President to recognize that there is a national crisis of insecurity for all Kenyan people irrespective of ethnic identity or religion, anybody and everybody is endangered because of the wanton killings. In my own City, Kisumu, a week does not pass without hearing of somebody was stopped at night by a motorbike rider and shot or somebody was abducted and the body found somewhere in a sugarcane plantation. Some of these incidences do not reach the limelight of the media. We need to have a thorough national investigation on this matter. We, as the Senate, through the relevant Committee, can help shape the issue by calling the relevant Cabinet Secretary and propose that a commission of inquiry be established by the Government. That commission should be given a specific time framework to report and recommend concrete actions that the Government will take to stop these extra-judicial killings. Our responsibility is straightforward; to frame the problem, propose the kind of committee to be formed, draft our terms of reference that we propose to them and give them a time action plan to do that. However, if we take it upon ourselves to form a Committee like my friend, Sen. Murkomen says, a joint committee between us and the National Assembly, we are not going to deliver the kind of product that is needed urgently to deal with this issue."
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