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"content": "terrorists confronting a military barrack or a heavily guarded police station. They will always look for soft targets like they did in 14 Riverside Drive. However, more importantly, as Kenyans, we can now see that the terror attacks in this country are changing by the day. If you look back, there was a terror attack during the World Cup in Kampala by Kenyan youth. Previously, any time there was a terror attack, everybody thought it was somebody of Somali origin. However, in the Kampala attack, it turned out that they were recently converted youth from the Luo, Kikuyu and, above all, Somali communities. It is now an integrated conspiracy of evil doers that are busy attacking and causing mayhem to Kenyans. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the recent past, and truth be told, the pretext for this continuing attacks, whether it is Westgate, Garissa, Mpeketoni or 14 Riverside Drive, it is all predicated on the continuing presence of our military in Somalia. I expected and hoped that Sen. Khaniri would touch on this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have continually called for Kenya to reconsider its presence in Somalia and bring back our boys and girls in uniform to protect our border from within our borders so that these terrorists do not have any excuse whatsoever, to continue causing mayhem. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is not something that should end up on the Floor. The Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations vice chaired by Sen. Sakaja of Nairobi County should look at it and catalogue the previous attacks, loss of lives, injured persons and loss of property and tell this House whether any compensation of any nature has been made to victims or not. This is because unlike other forms of injuries that people suffer, terror attacks are directly a responsibility of the Government because it is in charge of security. Therefore, we want to see those who have lost their lives, property or have been maimed, compensated so that they can lead decent lives for the reminder of their lives. Mr. Speaker, Sir, lastly, we saw from 14 Riverside Drive that when there is a coordinated approach, the security forces will do a good job as compared to the Westgate Mall attack where there was unhealthful competition between the military and the police and they ended up in a very disastrous manner. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we hope that 14 Riverside Drive is the very last terror attack on our soil and Kenyans will forever be vigilant and protect themselves against such attacks by giving information and the police and security agencies will do their job to protect our motherland. I send my condolences to my friend the owner of 14 Riverside Drive Complex, Mr. Chirac, whom I saw on the television actively involved in evacuations. There is also a Kenyan private firearm owner of Asian origin who was very active at Westgate Mall and whom we saw at 14 Riverside Drive doing a very good job."
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