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    "id": 802910,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to comment on this important matter. We all know that losing someone you love so much, for you to move on with your life, you need closure. I wonder what goes on in the minds of the family members of those people who are disappearing in Mombasa. About four weeks ago, the son of the former Minister for Internal Security, Mr. Julius Sunkuli, disappeared on 8th May. He was found dead in another county twenty days later. Everywhere you go in this country, you hear stories of people and grown men disappearing, women and young children being abducted yet there is nothing that we are doing to trace them. No wonder the police are being blamed daily. This is because they are the ones who are tasked with protecting human life that we consider so dear. In the National Assembly, there was a Bill which was passed last year - the National Coroners Service Act. The Bill was establishing the office of a Coroner- General, and his job was to investigate the mysterious deaths which mostly occur as a result of disappearances. The problem is that it was never implemented. People die in this country. When you go and find your loved ones who had disappeared, maybe in Chiromo Mortuary or another morgue somewhere, you just take the body and bury it. You do not even ask questions as to what happened. We talk so much about coming up with legislations to investigate and find out what happened. It is very sad that we have Coroner-General whose job is to investigate these mysterious circumstances where someone is found to have been dumped somewhere and that person has died or even when someone has just died of a mysterious disease. We will never get to know what ails this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is why I say this with so much passion and with due trepidation. I request the Inspector General (IG) to take up this matter because this issue that Sen. Faki has raised is something important. It is happening in Mombasa. It is very unfortunate that we can deduce that it is targeting people from one faith. Just like Sen. Orengo has said, it is not your fault that you were born into, and prescribe to, a particular faith. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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