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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "They could participate in an arrest, but I have never seen a person dressed in civilian clothes shooting at the public. I have never seen it. Was this a militia, and to whom does it answer? How did these armed men get to join uniformed police? Do the Force Standing Orders allow for that? How many police officers were issued with live bullets, and have the bullets been accounted for? Why was there so much random shooting? How can you have so many people in the hospital with gunshot wounds for a small demo that took place here? What was the President trying to justify? Can he get away scot-free from claiming there were criminals, when he cannot produce one who was shot dead on our streets? Why is the Internal Affairs Unit of the police being dismantled since the President came into power? Why has Mr. Koome, to whom the unit answers, transferred almost all competent investigators out of the Internal Affairs Unit? For those who do not know, the Internal Affairs Unit was set up and is properly equipped to investigate crime by the police. They receive reports from the public and fellow officers. The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) cannot investigate police officers. IPOA are civilians. Most of them do not understand the operation orders of the police. There is a special unit that deals with this. Why is it that this unit has been dismantled, starved of funds, competent officers transferred to outposts, and the unit left as a shell? Mr. Speaker, Sir, some of these officers were trained at a very high expense by the public outside this country in various jurisdictions. However, they are now doing clerical work in out stations since the appointment of the Inspector General (IG) Koome. Right now, as we speak, the police do not have the capacity to investigate what happened on the streets of Nairobi. This capacity had been built to ensure that if there were any issues, they would be investigated thoroughly by the police who understand how they are supposed to operate. The blood of these children who were killed is crying out for justice. Some were killed in this hallowed House. The young man who was making fun in the National Assembly Chamber by saying: “Mr. Speaker, Sir,” why did that young man have to be shot dead? We cannot sit here and discuss these niceties that we are discussing here, complaining and not making a case, yet people have buried children whose only crime was that they went out to say that this country can be managed in a better way. If there is anything that this House can resolve to do and still retain its dignity, it is to demand for justice for these kids. We have no other business because this country cannot be run the way it is being run. The mayhem that happened across Tom Mboya Street on the other side of the City, for some of us who walked there and saw, it was unbelievable. Forget about what happened here. It was unbelievable. The number of people who were shot and killed those sides is unbelievable. Why are we still having abductions? We are seeing stories in the media that some young men were abducted after the event, they disappeared and bodies have been recovered. Why is life so cheap in this country? Despite all that we are speaking here, unless we demand justice for the kids who were killed and for the blood which is crying out to be atoned, there is nothing we are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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