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    "content": "knives--- For example, I saw someone with a blood-stained knife carrying bananas. Does that still qualify to be termed as peaceful demonstration as protected within the law? Have we lost ourselves as politicians that then we get excited when our supporters do that from whichever side of the divide? I would like to request that the mandate of this Committee is expanded to look at all those things. In many countries, demonstrations are actually guided by the law but there is an area where you do a demonstration; where you make your point known and then go back home peacefully. Even outside the White House there is a square for demonstrations. Outside the Congress, there is a square for demonstrations. This Committee should then be the Departmental Committee on security and should actually go through all of that and even propose legislation on how no individual who will ever sit as Minister denies that right to any Kenyan, but also that no Kenyan can then think that their right to demonstrate then prevents any other Kenyan from the right to own their property or even their own life. This matter has affected business in Nairobi and Kiambu. We have lost lives and I would like to pass my condolences to all those who have lost loved ones through this period of madness that has taken place in this country and that I believe is behind us now. But let us look at it objectively without political lenses because the sanctity of life is the most important and must be protected by this House and by our country."
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