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    "id": 1443043,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Beth Syengo",
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    "content": "Senators, the Senator for Nairobi and Sen. Mumma. We witnessed as the police officers shot our innocent and unarmed young men and women. I remember I knelt down before one killer policeman. I confronted him and asked him why he was killing unarmed, innocent young man. It was so hurting as a mother. That policeman looked at me and told me to get behind him, that, those were crooks and criminals from Kibera. The student who was being pursued removed his identification card. He was a student from a university, but the policeman could not hear anything of that. He shot the man dead. It was so painful. Why should we have police who should keep law and order in the country and protect citizens and property, killing our young men and women? It has been said and many of my colleagues said it yesterday, on the wastage in this Government. Kenyans are suffering. They have no jobs and are tarmacking for over 10 years. They have nothing to put on the table in the evening. Yet they are seeing more than 20 vehicles in a convoy of our leaders in this nation. It pains to see how our resources are wasted, yet people are suffering. Unemployment has already been mentioned. Our people suffer more when those in positions to employ are practising nepotism and tribalism. You get to an institution and find that someone in a position to employ has brought relatives or people from his community. I am also a Member of the Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunities and Regional Integration. We have called so many heads of institutions to come before us. What is the repeated issue? That, we find out people employed in those institutions come from at least two tribal groups or communities. They take 73 to 80 per cent, leaving the rest of the Kenyans to struggle for 15 per cent or maybe 20 per cent. What are we telling our people in Kenya? It is so bad. Concerning impunity, when people refuse to obey court orders, what are we communicating to those young people and all Kenyans looking at us? On Corruption, we have new billionaires in town. Since the takeover of the current administration, I hear that even in this House, we have new billionaires. Where are the rest of Kenyans? We have new billionaires and yet Kenyans are suffering. They are billionaires courtesy of corruption. Tendering processes are so skewed for specific people to make money. When a few are making money and a majority are suffering, what are we telling Kenyans? That Kenya has become like what we call the animal farm. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I request that you intervene again and request the Senators to---"
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