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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " That is why, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said that all those issues will be pleaded in court. The good thing with this answer is that suspects have been arrested and they are facing charges in court for committing a crime of murder. All those issues will be tried in court. If I am a judge sitting in judgement, it will not be a defence to say that they were stealing a television. Whether they were of good mental status or not, it can never be a defence or a basis for someone to say in court that “we killed them because they were stealing a television.” In fact, even if they were stealing a television, the crime would have remained a crime because that is not a defence. I am just trying to say that those people who were standing trial are already facing trial because they committed an offence and that they are suspected to be the ones who committed that offence. Sen. Haji, I totally agree. You will remember that I paused when I saw the number of defilement and rape cases in that area. It is very serious particularly when you talk about 41 defilement cases reported in one year; and, maybe, others go unreported. We are talking about our children who are below 18 years; some may be 10, 11 or 12 and vulnerable. I agree with Sen. Haji that the Ministry must go further to ask themselves what are the other issues that are creating a conducive environment in Nandi County and, indeed, in the rest of the country. This is because if this report was to be given in many counties, it will be very shocking to see how vulnerable our children are in the society and then see what can be done. Maybe that will be a question and an area that we can interrogate further holistically so that the issues raised by the Senator can be addressed."
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