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    "id": 1121212,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Sen. Omogeni, we are proud of you, we who are your colleagues in the legal profession. We pray that Kenyans and the people of Nyamira return you here unopposed. I do not think that when it comes to merit and commitment in terms of defending human rights, the law enjoins all of us to defend in however or whatever method and way we choose to. This report is a good testimony that you are discharging your constitutional and divine duties to do that. If the people of Nyamira wherever they are, are hearing me, they should consider returning you to this House because you are not just an asset to the people of Nyamira, but also to this nation. This is a comprehensive report and hope it will see light of day. Those who are in authority and think they are permanent and pensionable, should know that they will be civilians for most their lives and perhaps victims of the same roguish police force we are discussing today. Madam Temporary Speaker, the police without trust are just state sanctioned public paid thugs. I have always thought and considered that being a police officer should be a dignified job, in fact a calling. His Excellency God has not considered it urgent to come back to earth and offer us protection. Going by what the book of Romans chapter 13 says, all governments are created and blessed by God. He has decided to advise us to create a force called the police force to assume temporarily the duties of defending our lives. Now that he advised us to do so and we have created such a force at the expense of the taxpayers, with their presumed authority granted to us as legislators, I believe they must consider the work they do for the public as divine responsibility that must be done honestly and for the welfare and wellbeing of all human beings, particularly the weak and the vulnerable. These are the victims of crime and do not have the resources and what it takes to pursue justice in court against the police. They are the ones who are susceptible to intimidation when such crimes are visited against them. In protecting the weak and the vulnerable we call upon the police and those who oversee them to rise up to what God and what we all expect of them, to be protectors and defenders of innocent and weak people both in Kenya and internationally because police misdeeds do not reside within our boundaries. They go beyond our boundaries to other nations that we have rights to visit. If you go to Migingo, you will find some characters residing in that island thinking that other people who go there are not God’s people. If you go along the shores of Lake Victoria trying to fend for your life, you have a loved at home and are looking for fish, some characters from Tanzania in the name of police arrest you and detain you forever not knowing that first, you are a human being and secondly, you are under obligation to have a decent livelihood. This is a good report that we should all work for, support and ensure that it sees the light of day. It is the responsibility of the institutions described within this report to telescope the police and bring them to book when they are excessive and violate the rights of those they are supposed to protect."
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