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    "id": 1219734,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Petition by Madam Annette Mbogo who the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party tells me is from Kilifi County and is a very good scholar and lawyer. In support of this Petition, she avers that she or her organisation has made efforts to have this matter addressed through the filing of a constitutional petition. She is asking the Attorney-General of the Republic of Kenya to request His Excellency the President to form a judicial commission of inquiry to look into the rampant cases of enforced disappearances. The same has not been fruitful. I do not know whether the Chairperson of this Committee is in the House. Probably, this should be among the recommendations that the Committee should come up with—that we institute a commission of inquiry to get to the root cause of why people are forced to disappear. We are calling these things forced disappearances. I do not know what a forced disappearance is. What we are calling forced disappearances are outright killings. There is no way you can disappear into thin air and never be found. I also have cases in my constituency. A son to Mzee Michuki, who is my very good friend, just disappeared into thin air. As the petitioner avers in this Petition, in most of these cases, these are people who are allegedly arrested by people who claim to be policemen. Let us be fair and honest to ourselves. It is not just people who claim to be policemen. Actually, it has been policemen abducting people and killing them in broad daylight in this country. It is sad. When His Excellency the President disbanded what was called the SS, or I do not know The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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