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    "id": 1317603,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kithure Kindiki",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. On 29th April 2023, PC Emmanuel Kiprop and PC Kennedy Muriithi from Kathwana Police Station within Tharaka Nithi County were on duty in Kathwana Market, where they had been assigned duties. At around 7:30 p.m. of the same day, the two officers were killed at Kathanje Market, which is about five kilometres away from Kathwana Market. Investigations revealed that while the officers were at Kathanje Market, Mr Zacchaeus Muriithi, who owns a shop within the market, raised the alarm and members of the public attacked the officers with crude weapons, fatally wounding them. The police processed the scene and later moved the bodies to the mortuary for preservation. Following the incident, investigations ensued and the circumstances of this unfortunate incident were relayed by the police to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). He advised the police to record a statement from the shop owner who raised the alarm and, as a result, the violence ensued in the form of mob justice, leading to the death of the officer in question. The shop owner's statement was recorded on 13th September 2023. Further, guidance has been sought by the police from the ODPP on whether to charge the shop owner or any other person who participated in the death of the officer. That advice is being awaited and has not been supplied. I want to make two points as I end this response. First, the late PC Emmanuel Kiprop had been assigned duties by his superiors at Kathwana Market. However, it is not clear how he found himself outside the area in Kathanje Market, which is five kilometres away. This is part of the ongoing investigations to find out under whose orders he found himself there. As I have said, the file is still being processed between the police and the ODPP. Second, there are conflicting reports that the shop owner in Kathanje Market, who raised the alarm, complained that the two police officers had intruded on his shop. There are conflicting reports that those officers had gone to search for certain crime-related evidence from the shop owner when they met their death. It is not very clear whether instructions had been given for them to arrest the person whose alarm led to the unfortunate death of Mr Kiprop. Finally, regarding compensation, the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) Insurance Scheme has provided what happens when an officer dies in the line of duty. Therefore, issues to do with reparations for the loss of PC Kiprop will be pursued within the avenues of the police insurance scheme, which takes care of fatalities of police officers when in the line of duty. I submit."
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