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    "id": 1268618,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1268618/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
        "slug": "cherarkey-k-samson"
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    "content": "My apologies, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I presumed. Let us not lie to Kenyans. Let all leaders come to Parliament. If you are a parliamentarian sit here and do your job. Do not go and throw stones in the streets and incite the public to destroy property and lives. I sympathize and empathize with many Kenyans who have lost their lives. I saw the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) reading a statement on allegations of police brutality and extra-judicial killings yet no one is talking about Kitengela where some people attacked a District County Commissioner’s (DCC) office. A police station was also attacked in Nyanza and police officers were injured. However, KNHCR is not talking about them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, how can a police officer arrest somebody who is throwing stones, firing a gun or has a machete? Which mathematics will you use to arrest such a person? All of us are human beings. We ask the police to be responsible while enforcing law and order. However, police officers are also our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, husbands and wives. How can we do a blanket condemnation yet there is an Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA)? If I have an allegation against the police is should go to IPOA. I am saying this because instead of leaders coming to Parliament to legislate on the County License Uniform Procedure Bill, they are busy lying to Kenyans that if they carry sufurias on their heads the cost of food will come down. I am happy that, through Government intervention to subsidize fertilizer, we are going to see bumper harvest where I come from. This is what we should be doing. We should do our jobs. Let all of us ensure that we do our jobs---"
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