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    "id": 1030474,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "When members of the community demonstrated and explained all that to the police and the County Commissioner, informing them that they did not respond on time even with the evidence and wanted assurance that they will investigate and get to the bottom of the matter and arrest the culprits, there is nothing forthcoming. The perception of the public is that the police are accomplices in that because they did not act on time when it happened yet there were there. Members of the public provided a phone that could trace the assailants, but up to now there is no communication. There is no information coming from the police or the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) that they are doing something. Our feeling is that if it were a local, maybe they would have told us who it was. It may not be a local and that is why the information is not coming out. That is a feeling that is being precipitated by the fact that the police are not responding. Instead, when they asked members of the public with information to come forward, the one who went forward is now being threatened with arrest. They are being told that they broke COVID- 19 protocols. Somebody died and they are trying to assist solve the puzzle. Instead of them being told to say what they know, they are now being told they broke COVID-19 protocols by demonstrating. People demonstrated because somebody lost their life. COVID-19 protocols are about saving lives. We are losing lives, but the state agency which is supposed to protect us is not responding. Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to urge the police to take their work seriously and move with speed because by not responding makes criminals bold to commit crimes knowing that nobody will go after them. When there are leads like the phone, that is the best way to go about it. We are giving the police time to make sure they sort out this issue. Otherwise the kind of situation we are in will lead to more crime and we are going to lose more lives. We do not want to go that way. Madam Deputy Speaker, mine is to urge the County Security Committee of Marsabit led by the County Commissioner to take their work seriously to solve crimes and give hope to the public. If they cannot respond even with the information they have been given, but instead turn against the public that they have broken COVID-19 protocols, then we are not giving Kenyans assurance. They are not behaving like the state security is supposed to by taking care of the security of Kenyans. Let the state security organs take their work seriously and protect Kenyans. I thank you."
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