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    "id": 877744,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Sen. Kihika of Nakuru County is so right. Four years ago, the Governor of Uasin Gishu County rounded up children in Eldoret and dumped them at Alupe Leprosy Hospital in Busia County. On the eve of elections, the same governor rounded up children in Eldoret and dumped them in a forest in Kitale, Trans Nzoia County. Now, we have Nakuru County It must be told to anybody and everybody with ears to hear and understand that Kenyans have a right to live anywhere and everywhere in this country. Kenyans have a right to own property anywhere and everywhere in this country. Children are the most vulnerable of Kenyans and must be protected. What the County Government of Nakuru has done and the County Government of Uasin Gishu did are criminal acts. They are not even acts to be investigated by this House; they are acts to be investigated by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the culprits prosecuted. We cannot, as a society, allow errant and truant characters to start molesting children, who have no responsibility whatsoever on how they came to this earth and how they live. It is the duty of every right thinking leader in this country to offer protection to the vulnerable in each and every way possible. Taking children and dumping them in the forest in Baringo was a clear manifestation of a premeditated act to expose children to harm, and if possible, death because this is a forest with wild animals. This Senate should not countenance this cowardly and criminal act; we must condemn it. As the Committee goes to look at it, we must emphasize the criminal culpability of this act. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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