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    "id": 1498127,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "It is, therefore, not fair to describe all those things as abductions. I know it is politically expedient and very good for the public gallery to be speaking about abductions. There is a trend in this country today where even individuals who are legitimately arrested by police, booked into known police station cells and arraigned in courts of law are being described as victims of abductions. We should probably define what ‘abduction’ is. We had a case the other day of somebody’s wife in Nairobi who was also ‘married’ to another man in Narok. The husband in Nairobi reported that the wife had been abducted. I do not know whether that was an abduction or a case of people ‘stealing’ other people's wives. If tomorrow Hon. Bowen moves to Marakwet East with my wife, will I report my wife as having been abducted or do I say that I have been unable to do certain things that Hon. Bowen has managed to do? I am only saying this to emphasize on the need for us to be careful as leaders because we have a national platform. We must be cautious about the adjectives we use to describe incidences. When a murderer murders people, that is a murderer. When someone is abducted by criminals and the police apprehend the criminals, let us also have the decency of congratulating the police. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the head of DCI, Mr Amin, and his team of officers for moving with speed to apprehend criminals. When the Kware killings happened, it took the DCI less than a week to apprehend the main suspect. However, it took some wayward officers within the National Police Service a very short time to allow that suspect to escape from lawful custody. Those are the issues I would expect us, as leaders, to address. Let us commend our officers when they do a good job. We should encourage them to do better in terms of apprehending suspects and avoid the temptation of branding every criminal activity as an abduction. I know that there are also elements amongst us who want to make all those things look like they are abductions by the police. I appreciate what Hon. Millie Odhiambo has said ― that there are even persons who just disappeared and who were subsequently found. There are those who were arrested but who said they were abducted. Criminals must be arrested – they will, indeed, be arrested – and arraigned in courts of law in accordance with our Constitution."
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