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    "id": 1122078,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1122078/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Rev.) Waqo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13178,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Jilo Waqo",
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    "content": "Sen. Wetangula that a Committee on Implementation should be put in place so that all our recommendations can be considered. A Committee can do a follow up, so that one day Kenyans can know for sure that what we have done as a Committee can be given proper attention. Madam Deputy Speaker when we looked at the challenges faced in reducing impunity in the fight against extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearance, that is where the real issues have been brought out. Number one is while there are many actors handling matters relating to complaints against law enforcement officers there is lack of proper coordination and cooperation among agencies. This is one of the main hindrances that has been there. There is no proper coordination between the agencies or the corporations, and that has been one major hindrance. That is why we have all the challenges that we have faced as a country. Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to be brief. Under the recommendations, we have said that different things should be put in place. If we do so, then we will be able to reduce on this. In this country, many people have lost and keep losing their lives. These days, you cannot even know whether it is the citizens who are killing each other or the police killing them. From what you see, it is like no one is in control of this country and no one is taking care of people’s lives. Under our recommendations, we have said that we should establish a strong multiagency task force to ensure better synergy, collaboration and cooperation between the various agencies that seek to hold law enforcement officers accountable. Madam Deputy Speaker, many times, the officers who do this are left free and they continued doing it. Sometimes, they are even transferred from one place to another. All the criminals who do this are taken to places like Marsabit and other remote areas in the Northern part of Kenya for disciplinary action. They then continue to do the same things and punish citizens. That means that we will never get out of the problems that we are facing today. However, once the recommendations that we have made here will be put in place, those who have lost their loved ones will have peace in their hearts. Madam Deputy Speaker, our second, third, and fifth recommendations are areas that I will just mention. As we speak about this, we know that the Committee has given a lot of attention to it. Number two is the development of a monitoring and evaluation plan for the envisaged multiagency task force. The plan should set out clear indicators to track complaints, investigations, prosecution and the final outcomes of the cases on extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. Madam Deputy Speaker, in today’s world, without monitoring and evaluation, we know that nothing much happens. When this is put in place, we will know that any complaint that has been there will be given proper attention. This is because there will be timings and people will give a lot of attention such that before that time lapses, a proper report will be given. Fourthly, there should be enhanced training of law enforcement officers. Many Senators have referred to this. We have seen that the officers in place are mishandling"
}