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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Muthama Kavindu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for that correction. I concur with the rest of the Senators, that there have been a lot of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of our people in our country. We have spoken so much about adults, but there is a lot of enforced disappearance of children. Therefore, I would request the Committee to also put that into consideration even as they write about the people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Constitution states that every Kenyan has a right to life. God gives life and no one has a right to take anyone’s life. In September of this year, Mr. Abubakar Muli Nduva was arrested at Tala in Machakos County. Mr. Nduva was arrested and disappeared. The next time he was seen as an unidentified marked body in a mortuary. Extrajudicial killings are very wrong. Any one should be taken to court when they are arrested so that they can be charged in a court of law. Everyone has a right to be heard in a court of law and a right to defend themselves. For those that are poor and cannot afford a lawyer, the Government has a responsibility to give them lawyers to represent them in courts of law. Police officers have a right to defend even the wrong doers. They have no right to kill. Whether a person is right or wrong, they have a right to live. Further, every suspect is innocent unless proved otherwise. Capital punishment is not allowed by law in Kenya. Families which lose their loved ones under such circumstances are so traumatized and require counseling. I therefore request that the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights puts that into consideration. Victims of extrajudicial killings should go through counseling to come to terms with the loss. The victims should also be compensated financially because most of the people who are killed through extrajudicial killings are the bread winners of those families. Most of the families affected have very young children who are school going, young wives, mothers and other family members who depend on them. Such affected families need support from the State when they lose their bread winners through extrajudicial killings. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this report by the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights on the Inquiry into Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances in Kenya. This report should be given the weight that it deserves to see the light of day."
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