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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve)",
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    "content": "land? It is unfortunate that a family can decide to sell its land in order to get their son out of prison. Land is a factor of production and is a collateral that can be used anytime. If this family loses this land, it means they cannot get loans from banks in order to do development. They will also not have food like maize for consumption by the family. As a Senate, we have to ensure that we follow this report by Sen. Omogeni to the latter. I am happy because the Committee has come up with a raft of recommendations and they have a time frame. Some of the recommendations are immediate, others are continuous and others are between 2021 to 2022. Those 22 recommendations should be followed. There is need to compensate the families of those people who were killed. If your father or mother is killed unlawfully and you are not going to school, that family should be compensated. We are talking of a lifetime compensation, not two or three million. Madam Deputy Speaker, I give an example of what happened during the American Embassy terrorist attack. When the Americans were compensating the families of those who lost their lives during that bomb blast, the compensation was for a lifetime. This is so that even if people lost their fathers or mothers, the children continued to go to school. The American Government also ensured that they built shelters for the families. I am talking about a serious issue where the key breadwinner is not there and has been killed unfairly. What kind of compensation can we give such a family where the children may not be going to school? The family may have to sell their land. These children may not be receiving healthcare because they were under the cover of the father who is now dead. Madam Deputy Speaker, life is sacred. Nobody should think of taking away somebody’s life. Imagine your child escorting a visitor and that child not coming back; and you are supposed to contain that. It is not easy to get children, it is a blessing from God. Giving birth is a blessing, but death should not be intentional. People should go to their Maker when the Maker has decided and not because the police are trigger-happy or because of extrajudicial killings; that somebody has been abducted and disappeared. There is need for the Senate to ensure that it is intervening with speed and that the raft of recommendations by Sen. Omogeni’s Committee are followed to the dot. I feel the pain of those who have lost their parents because of extrajudicial killings. I feel the pain of that mother who gave birth to that child in prison unlawfully. Madam Deputy Speaker, on the case of my neighbour Wamalwa whose family has been told to pay Kshs60,000, this is a lot of money for a family struggling to eke a living. There is need for fairness even for people in prison. This boy was taken from his backyard. The police came for him very early in the morning, before people started working. The mother was just there helpless. There was nothing she could do. The police told the boy to accept the charges because he did not know what would happen to him. That is intimidation. There is need for the Senate to ensure that Wamalwa, Sachi’s son is released, with no strings attached. The villagers have confirmed that he did not go to the forest to steal timber. He did nothing. He was taken from his father’s house and taken to prison. I feel the pain of that family and many others whose parents are in prison not because they did anything wrong, but things were planted on them. For"
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