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    "id": 1225627,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1225627/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
        "slug": "sifuna-edwin-watenya"
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    "content": "processions. Indeed, the coalition known as Azimio la Umoja did notify the Nairobi City County Commander via a written letter that we would be undertaking maandamano . It was shocking to hear the police in Nairobi declaring that the planned procession by Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party was unlawful. Since we understand that under the Constitution, we do not need anybody’s permission, we decided to proceed and that is exactly what we did. I was in the company of my colleagues here when we set out from these premises to Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) which, by the way, is an extension of Parliament because that is where our offices as Senators in this Republic are. We were surprised to meet the Officer Commanding Station (OCS) at KICC. Without any reason or excuse, they hurled teargas at MPs. You could see me following him to ask if there was a grave mistake we had committed to warrant being teargassed. We have decided that there will be individual responsibility on police officers. Not every police officer misbehaved on that day. Kudos to all police officers who observed Article 37 of the Constitution. However, there are a few elements who still do not understand the breadth of this right. We have identified the OCS at KICC and a Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officer who was targeting Members, including myself, with live rounds of ammunition at Wabera Street. I want to tell the people who laugh and joke about these matters. Luckily you are my colleagues. In the event that I meet my demise on the streets, my family has assured that they shall set aside a tent for Senators. You might laugh and joke about these things, but you are the ones who will come to bury me and I am sure you will do it gladly. I wish I had time to print an image of a child called Master Lewis Musera, who was hit on the head by a tear gas canister in Makadara. People laugh and say it is just a tear gas canister. If that projectile is fired directly at you from the distance at which I am speaking, be assured there will be funeral in your home area. What are we doing as Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition party leaders? In the past, we have had people who have confessed to infiltrating Opposition"
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