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    "id": 1444475,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " As I was saying, none of us in this House would tolerate that kind of conduct that the Hon. Leader of the Minority Party has raised. I will be cautious to use words like “abductions” or “kidnap”. Probably, I could commit to first checking with the Inspector General of Police whether the police are holding the said officer and also to investigate what happened and who those particular people are. When I listened to Hon. Opiyo, it was also not clear to him whether those were policemen or otherwise. When this administration took over the reins of leadership in this country, President William Ruto committed that the days of Kenyans being abducted and killed and their bodies dumped in River Yala or River Tana, were behind us. I can assure you and the country that, that shall never happen again in this country. A situation where Kenyans are abducted and their bodies are later fished out from rivers will never happen. Hon. Speaker, if it were the police, not just officers of the Parliamentary Service Commission serving in offices would be targeted, even we as Members of Parliament, including those on this side of the coalition, would have fallen victim. Many, even on this side of the coalition, have fallen victim to arrests, justifiably by the police. When the police arrest you, they book you into an Occurrence Book (OB) and lock you in an unknown police station. You will be produced in court or released if they have no reasons to charge you. Therefore, let us not create the impression that those of us working in Parliament and parliamentarians are immune to the law. None of us is immune to the law. All of us should and must be treated equally under the law regardless of whether we are Members of Parliament, or whether I am the Leader of the majority Party or Hon. Opiyo is the Leader of the Minority Party. If Hon. Opiyo and I run into problems with the law, the law will take its course. We must be arrested and produced in court in line with that law."
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