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    "id": 1122136,
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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": "“If you raise your hand to kill me, I will not raise mine to kill you.” This is something that comes from providence; from the Almighty. Even in a situation where there is justification as is provided in Article 26 of the Constitution, that the State can intervene, the Holy Quran says, “If you raise your hand to kill me I will not raise mine to kill you.” This is the holy word that even where the state has justification, it can do anything, but not kill. That is the word of the Lord. All the time we try to say we are Christian or religious. In our organization as a state every Madaraka or Jamhuri day we start by having those prayers. From the beginning, this country has not done well. I think it comes from our history when the colonial state was using the hand of the state to abduct and kill people who stood firm in the fight against colonialism and imperialism. Some were killed in the battlefield while some such as Dedan Kimathi were arrested and not even given a proper trial. Even when he was hanged, we had no proper witnesses and his grave is unknown to date. That was the hand of the colonial Government. One was killed and buried and nobody could trace day of that execution and where that great Kenyan was buried. Every Mashujaa and Jamhuri days, we seek Dedan Kimathi’s family, but we do not think about that “original sin”. It is not an excuse for the state to abduct anybody or take his life just on account of suspicion that he or she has committed an offence. Even on the face of evidence as Sen. Kavindu Muthama was saying that person has a right to be taken before a court of law, which will then make a determination on innocence of that person. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we continue to laud ourselves as being a democratic country, which believes in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the question of extrajudicial killings has continued to be a challenge to our commitment to democratic and human rights ideals. This is particularly in the Coast, North Eastern and even Nairobi Regions. They have suffered a lot of extra judicial killings."
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