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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, 10 minutes after, Mr. Oguda called me, but my phone calls were jammed. I could not make or receive calls until about 6.30 a.m. this morning. In the ensuing period, those persons broke the gate of Mr. Oguda’s compound, went further to break his door and abducted him. As I speak, we do not know the whereabouts of Mr. Oguda, who is an officer in the Office of the Hon. Leader of the Minority Party. He is an officer who is supposed to make our work possible. We do not take it lightly that this is happening on the eve of this very special day. To further explain, the persons who abducted Mr. Oguda are not known, even though in his phone call to me at 2.20 a.m., he indicated that they were policemen. We have looked in all police stations in Nairobi and its environs, but he is nowhere to be seen. We do not know whether they killed him or they are holding him somewhere incommunicado. We do not know. Article 29 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya protects the right to freedom of every Kenyan citizen. Indeed, even the rights of arrested persons are protected in the Constitution in Article 49. Nobody is supposed to be arrested without being informed why they are being arrested. The Constitution goes further to provide for the rights of detained persons. If you are arrested and detained for whatever reason, you have a right to access the services of advocates or lawyers. Currently, the lawyers that I have assembled have been unable to access Mr. Oguda wherever he is. This cannot be treated as business as usual. It is in the same manner that someone can abduct officers assigned to the Office of the Hon. Speaker. That would be an affront to the independence of the institution of Parliament. Parliament is an independent institution and this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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