Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1122094,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1122094/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 227,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 827,
        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
        "slug": "godana-hargura"
    },
    "content": "Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. I would like to support this Motion on the adoption of the report of the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights on the inquiry into extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Kenya. I would like to thank the Committee for the work it has done. They have considered the existing situation we are in on extra judicial killings and enforced disappearances, which is affecting many Kenyans. The Committee has come up with an elaborate report, which gives a background of what they did, how they did it, the many organisations they met and their input. They have also highlighted the gaps in law. Their recommendations are in a clear matrix which assigns. Matrices wherever developed must assign responsibilities to institutions or individuals and give a timeframe within which they should submit to the Senate. It is clear that they have recommendations on legislative proposals and timelines, which will be oversighted by the Committee. The issue of extrajudicial killings is live in this country. It is clearly defined as arbitrary deprivation of life by Government authorities or individuals without the sanction of any judicial proceedings or legal process, where Kenyans are picked and the next day you hear they have been killed. Up to now families have not traced the whereabouts of their loved ones who were picked by individuals who are believed to be Government officials. On the issue of enforced disappearances, they have provided a clear definition which is arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agencies of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with authorisation, support or acquaintance of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which places such a person outside the protection of law. This is what is happening in this country. The various institutions which the Committee interacted with have given detailed data. I was looking at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) who since 2013 have documented 1,040 cases of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances attributed to security agencies. This is a big number of Kenyans who have lost their rights to legal representation. Even if they are suspected to have committed any crime, I believe the Government is powerful enough to restrain any individual from committing crime. It also has all the tools and the law on its side, so that it does not result to this act. These are acts of an individual who has no other powers to restrain somebody. It is only that kind of an individual who can result to extra judicial killings. Unfortunately, the Government with all its machinery and state power cannot restrain an individual within"
}