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    "id": 1122463,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1122463/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
        "slug": "john-kiarie-waweru"
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    "content": "I said some of the offenders of human rights are very high ranking officials, institutions and entities. One of the biggest offenders of human rights is the State itself. For example, we recently realised that the State had been competing with COVID-19 in killing its own people. The number of people who were killed during the periods of lockdown, cessation of movement and curfews competes with the number of people who were killed by the COVID-19 pandemic. So, the question begs: What kind of country is this where the State is in constant war with its own people? These are people killed by bullets that have been bought using taxes levied from the common man. The Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission has its work cut out for itself. The extrajudicial killings that we witness every day in the city are an issue that should be addressed by this Commission. It is during the pandemic that we have seen untold demolitions and serious violations of human rights where we have criminalised trade in this city. Today it is more dangerous to be a trader in this city than to be a criminal. You stand a higher chance of being shot by a stray bullet in this city if you are a small hustler or a small trader than if you are a criminal. Where agencies like the National Police Service and the Commission on Administrative Justice fail, and where the judicial system falters, the gap needs to be filled by the newly reconstituted Kenya National Human Rights and Equality Commission."
}