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Kenyan Government Fails to Protect Citizens From Terrorism - Lawmaker

© REUTERS / Goran TomasevicA church security woman searches a mother and her daughter for weapons before an Easter Sunday service in front of a Catholic church in Garissa April 5, 2015
A church security woman searches a mother and her daughter for weapons before an Easter Sunday service in front of a Catholic church in Garissa April 5, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Kenyan lawmaker Chris Wamalwa said that government has failed to protect people from terrorism.

A woman cries after she viewed the body of a relative killed in Thursday's attack on a university, at Chiromo funeral home, Nairobi, Kenya, Saturday, April 4, 201 - Sputnik International
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Kenya Declares Three Days of Mourning After Deadly University Attack
MOSCOW (Sputnik) The Kenyan government has failed to protect people from terrorism, local lawmaker Chris Wamalwa said Sunday.

On Thursday, armed Islamists attacked the country's Garissa college, leaving 147 people killed and more than 100 wounded.

"We'll not (stand for) continuing losing our children in cold blood because the government has failed to protect them," Wamalwa was quoted as saying by USA Today.

According to the media outlet, the lawmaker said Kenya's anti-terrorist police had failed to prevent the tragedy and called for disbanding the unit and forming another body to fight terrorism.

The responsibility for the Thursday attack was claimed by the Somalia-based al-Shabaab group, which has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.

On Friday, Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Ole Nkaissery said five suspects with alleged links to the attack had been detained.

On Saturday, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced a three-day national mourning during his address to the nation.

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