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    "id": 1347940,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1347940/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turbo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Janet Sitienei",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44(2)(c), I wish to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations regarding killing and maiming of residents of Kamagut and Kiplombe Wards in Turbo Constituency by Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers on 26th November 2023. The killings happened when the victims allegedly trespassed into a KDF maize farm situated on a contested buffer zone that the KDF hived off the land that it ought to have fully surrendered to squatters from Kiplombe and Kamagut settlement schemes in 2002. The KDF dug a deep, 5-metre wide unfenced trench around the zone and has been using it for cultivation under the Kenya Ordinance Factories Corporation (KOFC). Sadly, the trench has become a death trap for residents. It claimed four lives of school children in 2021. Three of them at once, and recently, on 21st July 2023, an 8-year-old minor fell in the trench and died. Four persons were killed by KDF on 26th November 2023. Several others were maimed and are hospitalised. The attacks by KDF on residents have been happening over time. On 25th December 2021, two people were shot and five others were maimed by KDF soldiers for protesting the erection of boundary beacons by KDF without involving residents or their leaders. They have also been hit by stray bullets from the KDF shooting range, which has caused loss of lives, pain and suffering to the people of Kiplombe."
}