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    "id": 1122047,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "In the past, prior to 2010, we had a Police Force. It appears our police used to misinterpret the meaning of force and felt that they have to use actual force on citizens. Today, we have a Police Service. When our Committee interviewed the current Inspector-General, he told us he was going to be a reformist Inspector-General of Police. We would encourage the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, to have periodic meetings with the Inspector-General, to get appraised on what reforms are being carried out. The more we talk about extrajudicial killings, the more people get shot and killed in custody. The more people get arrested and kidnapped and you never get to know where they go. This can be explained by the inordinate number of dead bodies that are dumped in rivers in Murang’a and Kiambu County. Mr. Speaker, Sir, people disappear. Eventually, you are told that the body was found in Ol Donyo Sabuk in a river, tied in a suck and dismembered. Very few individual citizens would have the capacity to do those kind of things. I cannot imagine a situation where an individual can kidnap two or three people, alone, and go and dismember their bodies and throw them into a body of water. All these, the buck ends on the desk of Inspector-General. Going forward, I urge that these recommendations be furnished on the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government, Police Commission, IPOA and the Inspector-General of Police and his team. I say so because we have continuously had a situation where brute force seems to be the modus of operation as against persuasion. Ordinarily, when the police want to arrest somebody – of course, there are extraneous cases where somebody is described as armed and dangerous – but ordinary people do not bear arms. You find a platoon of 30 policemen going to arrest a harmless Member of Parliament (MP) like we saw in the case of Sen. Lelegwe, Sen. Malalah and Sen. Lang’at, when actually it is improper deployment of our police officers. One or two policemen can go and arrest a helpless Senator like Sen. Cherargei here. Why should you deploy 20?"
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