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    "id": 1121125,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "criminal acts should be arrested by the police and taken to court where the verdict will be passed. We also got another representation from the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). The Commission gave us a long report of the cases they have been investigating for the last seven years. That is the period from 2013 to 2020. Again, not very good news to this House because this Commission has documented a total of 1,040 cases of people who have disappeared in the hands of security agencies. Now, the sad part is that 80 per cent of these people are our young adults between 18 and 35 years. This means that we are losing a very productive sector of our population in the hands of the police. Again, you will be surprised that most of these victims are subjected to torture. We were told very sad cases about some of them, where they were subjected to electric shock. We got accounts of people who were subjected to genital mutilation and cases where victims were exposed to extreme cold or heat. This brought to our mind what happened to our colleague, Sen. Malalah. You remember when he was arrested in Kakamega. He was kept in a police station up to 11.00 p.m. in the cold weather of Kakamega. There are cases documented by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), where victims were hanged on trees. Some were subjected to mock executions. Others were exposed to stinging ants in the wild, while others in this era were denied sleep and food in the hands of the police officers. This is a sad account on what is happening to Kenyans under the hands of the police. Madam Deputy Speaker, we were also told cases where the police had formed a notion that they will fight terror with terror. Suspects of terror related activities were met with terror in the hands of the police. We were given documented cases of 150 people who disappeared in the hands of the police. Some were killed and brutalized by the police in the name of being members of terrorist organisations. While this House and my Committee does not support acts of terrorism, we still maintain that suspects engaged in any criminal activities, including terror, should be subjected to the rule of law by being arrested, tried in courts of law. If found guilty, be convicted and jailed by our courts. We do not support the idea of the police turning out into terror gangs."
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