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    "id": 1164030,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support this Statement and congratulate Sen. Kihika for standing up for what has become very notorious happenings. The year 2021 saw Kenya have the highest number of extra judicial killings and forced disappearances in the history of our country. The year 2021 was also the year we had COVID-19 Pandemic. Though people were confined and literally in one place, I wonder how they ended up being killed or forced to disappear such that we have the highest number of forced disappearances, killings and shootings in that year. We are very early into the year 2022. If what Sen. Kihika has mentioned with regard to the fishermen continues, perhaps we might even break the record of the year 2021. Where are we heading? We should find security in our police and security forces. Madam Temporary Speaker, however, they seem to be a source of insecurity. In Nothern Kenya, where I come from, especially in Isiolo County, we have had similar incidences of police or other forces, perhaps dressed as policemen being trigger happy. A police officer by the name of Mr. Osman disappeared and I brought up a Statement on the Floor of this House. However, I have not received a response on that Statement. In fact, one of the reasons why I am standing is also to find out what is happening to some of the Statements we have sought from the Committee on Security in this House. When people come with this kind of Statements in this House, they are not just ordinary Statements; these are Statements of life and death. They include forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and others maimed. Such Statements should be treated with the urgency they deserve because we cannot be asking questions about our citizens and constituents, which do not see light of day. I wonder where my own Statement of a similar incident of forced disappearance of a police officer from my county, Mr. Osman, has gone. How far are we with it? We do not bring such Statements for the sake of it. We do not bring Statements just be seen to be doing something. We want something to be done."
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