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    "content": "If you go to Karen, there is no way that lion would have entered anybody’s home because they have barricaded themselves with electric fences, big walls and everything. However, when it is the ordinary man – the man in Mathare, Mandizini in Bungoma County, Shabab in Nakuru County – all we need to do is go and show a lot of piety at the funeral and donate money to the dead. There is no property in a dead person. Protect lives. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the Roman days, there used to be a doctrine called “Falling on the Sword”. If you are given the responsibility and privilege to guard the king and you let the king be harmed by strangers, you do not wait to be dealt with. You pick your sword and strike yourself dead. In this country, nobody wants to take responsibility. We were told that now they have gone to let all the other dams empty the water. Who has inspected to find out whether they are good dams or not? That is called a knee-jerk reaction, where people just wake up and panic. We do not want to run a country on whims. These people who lost their lives, I am sure they were workers who were weeding and sorting out coffee and nobody will give any value to their lives. I would want to see a situation where this Committee that will look at this matter also recommends compensation in real monetary terms. The fact that this family lost their livelihood, their loved ones and everything, they must, one, be bought some land somewhere to settle the remaining members of the family. Two, they must be built some shelter and be given money to start a new life. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also feel sorry for what happened in Moi Girls High School in Kibra, Nairobi, which is an upmarket school. In my own county of Bungoma, a school teacher impregnated 18 younggirls aged between 12 and 16 years in one school. He has not been arrested or prosecuted; instead, he was transferred to another school. I do not think he was doing anything else in that school!"
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