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    "id": 868957,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/868957/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First, I want to thank Sen. Khaniri for making this Statement on the 14 Riverside Drive, Dusit2 Complex attack. I would like to join him as well as other colleagues in reiterating our message of condolences to the families of those who lost loved ones in this attack. It was a very difficult moment for all of us as a country and we tell them pole once again. The funerals were very emotional. We lost very many young people who were working in IT companies and restaurants and all those establishments at 14 Riverside Dusit D2 Complex. On top of that, I would like to really congratulate and give gratitude to our security forces for the speedy response and coordination. For the first time, we saw a well-coordinated response in a matter of minutes and various different agencies were on sight together with civilian licensed firearm owners, a group of people who are rarely appreciated over time. They saved many people, more than 700 of families there. I am the former patron of that group called National Gun Owners Association (NGAO-K) and there are so many brave Kenyans who are always fast when such incidences occur. I am glad that we have been able to mainstream them in the regulatory framework that has been developed by the Government in working with the security forces. This attack affected everybody; people of different religions, tribes and colors. As Sen. Khaniri has said, it flies in the face of those who have been trying to bring sectarian divisions in this country saying that terrorism is about this religion against this other religion or these kind of people against these other kinds of people. Everybody was affected by this specific case and, it has shown the resilience of the Kenyan people in the face of terror, which is a cowardly act. Kenyans came out in their numbers to donate blood, to give messages of good will and we remain unbowed as a country. The only blot in all of this, in as much as the Kenyan media covered it well, was that some of the international media completely misbehaved when this incident happed. The New York Times went ahead to publish"
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