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    "id": 1470942,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1470942/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. From the onset, I want to congratulate the Inspector-General nominee, Douglas Kanja, for having gotten a chance to serve, I believe as the fourth IG of Police. Mr. Kanja will be taking office during a very challenging time. I want to state here that his first responsibility should be to ensure that the police respect the provisions of Article 244 of the Constitution. We need to restore public confidence in our police being a police service and not a terrorist unit. I have just been wondering, when those out there who are looking at us as a country see police officers arresting Hon. Keter the way they did; coming from church with his wife and child. He was picked like a terrorist arresting somebody--- How does the international community look at us when we raid the house of a former presidential candidate, Mr. Jimmy Wanjigi and maliciously damage his property? No! It is not right; we must say these things because it is affecting our image out there. Why should the police who are hiding their faces arrest people? Are they thugs? I should be able to know anybody arresting me. I should be able to know who that person is and have a right to inform my lawyer. I want Kenyans to be arrested the way Sen. Mandago was arrested. The police approached him and said, “Sir, could we kindly arrest you?” That is why I want it to be that way. Not the way they picked Sen. Cherarkey on a Friday, and booked him in Muthaiga Police Station. I went there to see him at Gigiri. He was put in a corridor with grills the whole weekend. That is not right. This lady you call Scorphine Aoko was arrested because she made a false publication of information contrary to Section 23 of the Computer and Cyber Crimes Act; a very small offense. She was arrested on the 16th locked up in a police station and denied access to a lawyer, only to be presented to court yesterday and given cash bail of Kshs20,000. Are we serious as a country? The police have better things to do. 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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