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    "id": 1443965,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "doing here. We are just going back to the same usual thing of lulling the country to sleep and pretending that something is being done, when absolutely nothing is being done. President Ruto claimed on national TV that they were criminals. Can he produce a single criminal who was involved in this business? He has better intelligence than we do. Among those dead people, can he point out and isolate one person who was a criminal that his security forces were justified to kill? This is not how to run a country. You cannot brand citizens criminals, kill them and say you are going to do it at all costs. What makes him think that his life is more precious than that of the fellow on the street? If we have to do anything, we must demand accountability for that blood. We must demand that President Ruto produces the criminals he claimed invaded Parliament, if they were not citizens. The President must tell us who these civilians were. How come civilians were mingling with the uniformed police and shooting people? The time when people said words and they got away with it is behind us. We are talking about the Gen Z. Not all the Gen Z are educated. We have got Gen Z who dropped out in Class Eight and did not get an education. I think about 60 to 70 per cent of the Gen Z are people who have already dropped through the cracks and they all came out. Some people have said that these Gen Z used to burn schools. I would challenge anybody to tell me where in Kenya a school was burnt. No school has ever been burnt in Kenya and I repeat, no school has ever been burnt in Kenya because a school is not a dormitory. When these kids were burning these dormitories, what statements were they making about the governance of this country? I have never seen a situation where kids have burnt books and classrooms. Why is it that all the burning was about the dormitories? What statement were they making? They were crying out for justice, then you come to say that schools were burning. Not a single school has ever been burnt in this country or I am not aware. What I have seen is that the dormitories have been burnt in schools, and I know we have got schools that do not have dormitories, but they are still schools. Therefore, why were the kids burning the dormitories? We saw another terrible thing happening the other day on our streets. The doctors were sleeping outside in the cold trying to enforce a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). This is such an important human resource wasting away, when we are in a country where people are dying for lack of medication and attention. It cannot be true that there is no money to pay these people. You just need to read the reports of the Auditor- General and you will see that this country is being looted dry. These people should be employed. We are a Republic of Kenya and the name “Republic” is an ideological statement about this country. We have to be governed as a Republic. We must be governed as a Republic. We are not a kiosk. We have a Constitution that says how power should be acquired in this country. When we have elections, why do people go to Bomas when the Constitution says that elections must terminate at the constituency? The next presidential election must end at the constituency for matters to be proper. There has been a call for other things. I hear that the Cabinet has been dissolved or stuff like that. That is like putting balm on a wound. What we demand and what I think 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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