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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will try and keep it to the three minutes. We have discussed this issue long enough. We have not only discussed it in this 11th Parliament, but also in the 10th Parliament. Let us call a spade a spade and not a big spoon. We dealt with Mungiki . I do not think there was a militia bigger than Mungiki. Today, it does not exist. How did we deal with Mungiki ? We were summoned; anybody who was suggested to have been using the Mungiki, who spoke or greeted a member of the Mungiki militia. They were all summoned. We were summoned as leaders and the Riot Act was read to us during the 10th Parliament. We eliminated Mungiki and if it exists today, it is underground. It cannot exist when the Government decides to put its foot down and when leaders who use militias are taken to task. Please, let us stop playing with the lives of people. I am hoping the Government is listening to this debate whether it is the President, the DP or even Gen. Nkaissery. Leave a legacy, your Excellency. We cannot have women being killed and children being shot by guns that are illegal simply because we fear political upheaval. Is politics more important than the lives of the people? I am begging that this does not become just another discussion and then we go back to the same state of affairs. Any leader in this House today who comes from the communities that are fighting, namely, the Pokot, the Tugen, the Marakwet and the Samburu, should go and record a statement. Let them go and tell the country why this situation continues. If they are treated with kid gloves, believe me, we will go to a very painful election because already this story is not about cattle rustling. It is now about the politics of August. It is about the politics of 2017. Let us not play around with Kenyan minds. Let us not waste time. Let us not debate in vain. There should be no more debating in vain. Leaders must take responsibility. If you are associated in any way with the insecurity in those areas, you do not deserve to be in this House! You cannot be in this House and people are dying. You cannot be selling guns. People know these stories. Are you telling me the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and Gen. Nkaissery do not know these stories? What are you telling Kenyans? Are we serious? Let them take action."
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