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    "id": 1148814,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Courtesy of the state, the court decided I should also lodge at Gigiri Police Station between Friday and Tuesday and the state of that police station is worrying. We need to do something. When you go to the ablution blocks that remandees are supposed to use--- There is need to renovate our police stations across the country. Madam Temporary Speaker, the furniture and buildings are in a pathetic state. Most of the police stations in Kenya, especially here in Nairobi, should be condemned by public health authorities because they were built many years back. I think this was a brilliant Statement by Sen. Kwamboka that should have assisted us once and for all and improved the working conditions of our police officers. You can imagine if we were coming to the Senate and there was no good working environment such as good sitting. It is discouraging. The problem in those police stations is not only for the police officers who work from there tirelessly to protect our country but also for us who are regular guests there. I am not saying that while we are arrested we should be given special treatment, but let the treatment be humane in some way. I do not want to say I enjoyed my five days stay in the police station but we should do something about the police stations that we have. When I was Chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee (JLAC), we did something on forced disappearances, state abductions and extra judicial killings. These issues are prevalent in the coast region and Nairobi. Sen. Kwamboka comes from this city, she will tell you and she knows that there are always people who are killed in unclear circumstances. I saw somebody who was shot dead in Mirema, Nairobi. In fact, it is an offence to be young in this city. There are three police vehicles and few rogue criminal officers within the service that go around killing young people in this city. They must be brought to book. No Kenyan should lose their lives under any account unless through the legal process. Nairobi City has borne the brunt and mostly the young people like some of us. When you go to coast and even the North Eastern parts of this country, there are many families without their sons and husbands. There are purported State abductions, extra judicial killings and forced disappearances. We remember the bodies recovered in River Nzoia and also the Tsavo story. We need the United Nations (UN) to investigate these forced disappearances. They should send a special rapporteur to Kenya. I think this issue is beyond the Committee. This is because the Committee cannot call the Minister of Interior and Coordination of national Government and the Inspector-General of Police and ask them to produce police officers who participate in forced disappearances and extra judicial killings. We need an independent oversight body such as the UN. There are so many young people who are being killed by rogue police officers in this city and even in Mombasa, North Eastern and many other places. A similar situation is happening even in Kisumu. In fact, there is a saying within the police force that, “when we arrest them they will be released by court. So let us “deal” with them.” We must stop that mentality. No person should lose their lives on account of being young or poor."
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