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    "id": 1494415,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "area where people can abduct or disappear others, run illegitimate detention centres and then release them without consequences. I have not heard of any incident where the abductees have been guaranteed security or the Government security apparatus summoning them to a de-briefing to try and identify where and why they were being held. That points to collusion by the police in the ongoing abductions. To make matters worse, it is a matter of fact that the capacity of the police to investigate these kinds of activities, if at all they involve the police forces, has greatly been eroded. This was deliberately done under the last command of Inspector General (IG) Koome. Officers who are trained to deal with this kind of matter and were housed at the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU) of the National Police Service (NPS) were systematically transferred out of station. However, the unit was starved of funds. It is a pale shadow of what it was when it was set up with the intention that should any security forces step out of the law, they would be dealt with by the fellow policemen. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if the Government is not taking action to debrief those who have been abducted and released, to establish where exactly they were being held, or determine who was holding them, then the only conclusion you can draw is that the security forces have failed in their mandate. For lack of a better word, they are complicit in the abductions. The circumstantial evidence that avails itself to an inquisitive eye is that our abductions are being conducted either by the police or with the full knowledge of the police command and---"
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