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    "id": 1240600,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "man from Undire Village in my constituency. That young man tells me he is struggling to repay his loan. It is sad when it is we, leaders, who are using police officers who have been seconded to us to protect us, to intimidate other police officers not to carry out their duties. Some people in ODM who are crying today were the first people to shout me down when I said it was rather perturbing to see a person of the stature of a former President commandeering goons. The goons were chasing away police officers who were carrying out their constitutional and legal mandate while he has armed security standing next to him. We are only putting our country in danger if we allow these things to happen. Hon. Speaker, even as you consider the request by Hon. Jared Okello, who is the Member for Nyando, I request you to rule that we, as Members of Parliament, should act responsibly. It is true you are within your rights to picket and demonstrate, even if you want to protest peacefully or violently. It is within your rights. However, do not misuse armed Government officers to face off with other armed Government officers under the same command. It is only fair that we also protect our officers because they are also human beings like us. Remember Kisumu the other day; we lost our young man from Nyamira County, a police officer who was killed by youths throwing stones. Nobody bothered to moan that police officer. People have lost property on account of those demonstrations."
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