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    "id": 1105418,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Chair for responding. Listening to the Response, I was actually thinking about the judicial process of appeal but when you look at many of the families, they cannot afford the legal fees because more often, you need a lawyer to take up the matter. We have an Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). Unfortunately, as a House, we need to look at the law that operationalises the IPOA because more often than not we have raised similar cases and asked the IPOA to conduct investigations. However, after they have done the investigations, they are not able to deliver anything and you wonder whether people are just in that office enjoying salaries without being effective. I know that in the BBI something was being looked into about the IPOA. I think IPOA is one of those bodies that is not effective and so, as a House, we need to do away with it and create a mechanism through which people can seek redress in these matters. This is because for the time IPOA has been there, I do not think they have achieved anything. So, we should examine the law that created IPOA so that something can be done about it. It is very frustrating. I have appealed to IPOA, but they have not been able to deliver anything. They are ineffective! Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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