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    "id": 1122134,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "Without fear of contradiction, extrajudicial killing is a trait and character of a weak State. In South America, where there were a lot of disappearances and extrajudicial killings, it happened when there were absolute dictatorships. We know what happened in the recent history to the extent that many of those states are now democratic, where we have less and less of those disappearances. Some may be out of drug wars in countries where there are issues with drugs. Some of the institutions such as the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights (KNCHR) and IPOA were created to look into the conduct of state institutions, particularly those that are given coercive powers. They should ensure that citizens of this country fully enjoy the Bill of Rights. Their silence these days is bewildering. There was a time when we had people such as Khelef Khalifa and Maina Kiai in the KNCHR. They would take the state to account on any loss of life or conduct that undermined the Bill of Rights. As we discuss this very important report, we should have a relook at these institutions we have created. Probably, we do not need to talk about these matters here because these institutions are under special jurisdiction under the Constitution to ensure some of these things did not happen. The tenure of Mr. Macharia Njeru, who is now in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) at IPOA, I think was exemplary because the police were all the time being taken to account. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was just reading the scriptures both from the Holy Quran and the Holy Bible. From the biblical perspective God’s wrath on humanity begun with the eating of the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden. The second wrath was when Cain killed Abel. One was said to be a farmer while the other was a herdsman. When I was looking at that same story in the Quran I am truly delighted by what the Quran says about this right to life. It says- “Prophet, tell them the true story of Adam's two sons: each of them offered a sacrifice and it was accepted from one and not the other. One said, “I will kill you,” but the other said, “God only accepts the sacrifice of those who are mindful of them.” God was saying that a sacrifice by itself does not matter. It only makes meaning when one is mindful of the creator. It proceeds to say –"
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