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    "id": 105756,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Saitoti",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 205,
        "legal_name": "George Muthengi Kinuthia Saitoti",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The hon. Gideon Mung’aro, on Tuesday, 6th of April, 2010, stood on a point of order, seeking a Ministerial Statement on the Watamu incident that involved the killing of two people. In the statement, he wanted me, as the Minister, to clarify the circumstances under which eviction of some people took place from a plot they were residing in at Watamu at night. He also sought to know how many people were injured by the police and in which hospitals they were receiving treatment. Finally, he wanted to know what action the Minister has taken against the Provincial Commissioner and the police officers involved in the killings. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on 18th January, 2010, the Provincial Commissioner for Coast Province, Mr. Ernest Munyi, in his private capacity as a Kenyan citizen, obtained a court order from the Chief Magistrate’s court, Mombasa, for the eviction of Mr. Jarvasio Kanampiu who had settled on his one quarter acre plot in Watamu, Malindi. This was after a long protracted civil court case, filed in the same court in 1995. Information available shows that the PC had won the case and required Mr. Kanampiu to vacate the plot, but he had refused to leave. In the early hours on the 31st March, 2010, regular and Administration police officers, acting on the strength of the eviction order number 741 of 1995, issued by the Chief Magistrate’s court Mombasa on 18th January, 2010, proceeded to Watamu to evict Mr. Jarvasio Kanampiu, the defendant. The order was addressed to a court bailiff. The PC Coast Province, Mr. Munyi, asked for regular police officers to team up with the Administration police officers to oversee the execution of the order, including the eviction and demolition of the structures standing on the plot. By 6.00 a.m. the court bailiff had already conducted the eviction and demolition of the buildings on the plot in dispute. As the hired bulldozer was leaving the scene, a group of about forty people appeared along the road armed with stones and all sorts of crude weapons and started pelting the officers and the bulldozer with stones. The bulldozer was safely driven away. The action by the police to safeguard the bulldozer appeared not to have gone down well with the angry crowd, upon the realization that the disputed plot was owned by the PC, Coast Province, who had organized the eviction. These people were later joined by others, who then went on to protest at the local police station. The security personnel were reinforced by a contingent of officers from Malindi and Mombasa who tried to calm the volatile situation. Police officers initially used teargas to disperse the crowd, but were later forced to shoot in the air as the crowd became more hostile."
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