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    "id": 1269607,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. We are discussing police brutality. How sad is it for this country to belittle the horror that has been perpetrated by the police? The police demonstrated that they are actually killing the nation, as one musician once sang. The people who kill the nation are the ones who are supposed to protect the very nation that they are serving. The country looks so bad in the eyes of the international community. When you kill people of all categories including women, men, elderly people and youths, who are simply demonstrating because of the high cost of living, then you really do not know what you are doing. Demonstration is a right all over the world. Kenya is not the only country where demonstrations have taken place. There is no single police who goes to the streets to shoot-to- kill young people who are simply expressing their rights. This country, therefore, needs to apologise to its citizens. The leadership of this country needs to apologise to the families whose kins were murdered or maimed. The image of this Government is very poor. It is so heart breaking and horrifying. The police officers need to apologise and compensate the families whose kins have been affected in one way or the other. The image of this country is very poor. It is heart- breaking and horrifying. Otherwise, this country is going down the drain. You have no right to kill your own people. Brothers are killing their own brothers. You are killing your own sisters and mothers. You should be ashamed as a Government. You cannot continue to do that when you know very well that the people who are demonstrating are not armed. The people who were demonstrating were simply walking. I was in Siaya and there was no violence at all. You, therefore, cannot talk about violence when the police themselves are violent. You cannot carry live bullets and shoot, throw tear gas to the people and expect them not to die. The Members who are here, who do not seem to have a heart for humanity, your time is coming. You cannot kill and continue to celebrate that you have killed. You should face other people who have guns like you and fight them, but not people who are not armed at all. The image of this country is very bad. The image of the Government is very bad. You owe the nation an apology and you must compensate for the lives you have taken. Thank you for giving me this opportunity."
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