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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the statement by Sen. Okenyuri. I feel for the family and the loss of life of a skilled officer; the intern doctor who supposedly committed suicide. As we go around selling the resources of our country; if it is not a delegation of an airport being sold, it could be a port, or any other major resource of this country; we should be paying attention to the challenges that the public sectors are experiencing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, just a few days ago, the intern doctors were on the streets. If it is not the doctors, it is the lecturers running around on the streets. If it is not the lecturers, we have teachers demonstrating on the streets. This is not a death in isolation. We have often seen or heard about police officers who shoot their whole families and kill themselves. We have had teachers who have committed suicide. We have had two teachers committing suicide in a neighbouring ward, where I come from, called Kanyikela Ward in Ndhiwa Constituency. If it is not teachers committing suicide, it is police officers killing themselves or killing their families. Here we have a doctor intern. We all know what goes on in the training of doctors. It is an unfortunate situation. As a country, we must attend to the challenges that are bedevilling the public sector. I now come to the statement by the Senator of Bomet County. I feel for the demonstrators, but it brings me back to the video we all watched - if not all - on the day the multimedia students were demonstrating. It was so unfortunate and so painful for me as a mother to see a young, helpless man being beaten brutally by police officers. On this day in the evening, one young girl wrote to me and I invite all the police officers out there to listen to what she said. “These police officers are not seeing the future. Their own children and relatives will not be able to afford those school fees.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, this was a message from a young girl who is barely 19 years old. It tells all of us about the fear the young people have about their future. I condemn the killing of the demonstrators, along with the killing of other demonstrators in the past. Due to senseless killing that we saw on 25th June, 2024, we are still being told that a number of people are still looking for their lost children, brothers or sisters. The question we are posing to the Government is: Where are these people? We last saw a number of bodies from some quarry and, incidentally, there were only from one gender. Who was this that was just choosing women or girls? Where are the bodies of the boys that they could have been with? As a country, we must attend to the challenges that the public sector is going through. If it is low investment, we must look into it. I feel for the intern doctor and for all the Kenyans who go through that suffering. I support."
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