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    "id": 899638,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The murders happening in Kakamega are chilling. It is almost bordering on genocide. Where I disagree a little bit with Washiali is that this could be economically engineered. When you look at the houses of some of the families which are targeted, they look so poor that you wonder what anyone who wants economic gain would be going to do in such places. Our security apparatus needs to seriously look into this matter. It is not even a matter of the number of police officers. We need intelligence gathering. If we can manage to get information about Al Shabaab, why can we not get information about the killings in Kakamega which are happening just around us? You can see that the people who are perpetrating these heinous acts are possibly people who do not come from far. We ask the security apparatus in this country to take their work seriously. Apart from adding the number of police officers in those areas - and not just those areas - we need the security system in this country to be alert for the security of Kenyans. The main reason why a Government exists is to protect its people. We see our fellow Kenyans dying almost every day. There was a report which I cannot remember properly. I am sure the Member of Parliament for Kakamega County, Hon. Murunga, may be aware of this. There was a case where people were killed next to a police station. How can that happen? What are our police officers doing? Why can they not do patrols? What of the intelligence system? We are giving huge budgets to the National Intelligence Service (NIS). They are not just supposed to spy on us, our phones, see what we are exchanging here and there and which people we meet. They are supposed to go across the country and get intelligence about those criminals who are grouping to attack Kenyans. As I wind up, this is a case of irresponsibility on the part of security officers, OCSs and OCPDs. Let them take their work seriously. It is not about transfers. If someone cannot manage simple acts of criminal activities, why do you even transfer that person to another place? This is a matter that if the Government wants to take action, they will do so and put a stop and end to it."
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