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    "id": 1347955,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kesses, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Rutto",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also weigh in on the Statement sought by Hon. Janet Sitienei, Member for Turbo. I want to make a statement of witness on the fateful day when I got the news that people had been brutally killed in the Recruits Training School (RTS) area. I managed to go there personally to confirm and witness as I convey my condolences to the people. It is so painful to see what happened on that day. The bodies were scattered like dog carcasses. They were killed brutally with crude weapons. It was not a case of an attack where the military personnel were defending themselves. It was an intentional attack on the people, who were maimed and killed like stray dogs. Hon. Speaker, this is a matter that requires a serious inquiry. We have to understand the situation under which military personnel, who have been given the responsibility of protecting the citizens from external atrocities, turned out to attack the same people yet they need to co- exist. There are serious allegations by women around there of assault and rape on repeated occasions. The same soldiers have been raping the women whenever they find them walking back to their huts at night. This is a situation where there are villages on the edges of the particular parcel of land. The communities have to visit each other on either side of that parcel of land, and the soldiers have been perpetrating all these inhuman activities to them. I want to add my voice as I condemn this act and ask the relevant Committee to go in- depth to understand the matter. They should probably visit that area and get the views of the people so that we get a conclusive report that will ensure that these problems are sorted out once and for all. The aspect of people using excessive force on the citizens of the Republic of Kenya, instead of protecting them, is not acceptable."
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