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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to comment on Sen. Wakili Sigei’s statement on the issue of police brutality. This House must fight police force misuse against citizens. I was expecting that perhaps in that statement, another Senator could have requested that one of the biggest motions that we had in this House at the time that we were faced with the lowest moment of our country when the Gen Z movement was forced to visit this House to call Parliament to order. Senators in this House, through the majority leader's Motion, expressed themselves overwhelmingly on the issues of police brutality, police mistreatment, abduction and extrajudicial killing. It is disappointing that many months after this conversation, the resolutions of this House that were sent to the President of this country, not even a single one have not been taken seriously. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we resolved in this House that the young people who were killed in that demonstration must be compensated. The police will never know the magnitude of their deeds if those young people are not compensated. We said in this House that young people who have been abducted must be tried and released from those abductions. We said in our resolution in this House that those young people who were arrested and are in court for crimes that do not make sense must be forgiven. We said in this House that police who have meted extrajudicial killings and did things that are wrong to Kenyans must be brought to book. Now you come to a situation where many months later, there is a statement that needs to go to a committee over the same actions of the same policemen. What are we doing? I think that committee must go to the resolution of this House that went to the President and make sure that every single issue that was in that resolution is implemented. I felt bad the other day when Multimedia University students were demonstrating. Three policemen ganged up on this young man, beat him up and broke his legs. He could not move and they tried to drag him to take him to the vehicle. This young Kenyan; a student, was just expressing himself. When he could not walk with this policeman to the car, a policeman said, “ tumpatie dawa kidogo.” This dawa was taking a tear gas canister and throwing it on the face of an already beaten and battered young man on that campus. This is an issue that, as a House, we must sit, work on it and finish it once and for all. It only starts by making sure that the resolution that we made in this House is implemented to the full. My last comment will be on the issue of mental health. In a few weeks’ time, we will have the Senate Mashinani in Busia. When we were in Turkana, we passed one of 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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