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"content": "The police, the security apparatus and the Government have abdicated the responsibility of keeping Kenyans free from fear and taking charge of security. For a whole week, vigilantes had been on rampage looking for suspects, burning their properties and killing them. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, a criminal act, committed by whatever name a person goes by or whatever colour, is a criminal act. The only power that a vigilante group would have is the citizensâ power of arrest. Any citizen has power, under our Constitution, to arrest a wrong doer or a suspect and take him or her to a police station. But nobody has the right to become an accuser, a judge and an executioner. There is information coming in that those vigilantes were, most probably, escorted by the police in their heinous acts. The moment the police and the residents of Kirinyaga, I included, warmed up to that kind of behavior for a week, it was a recipe for the disaster that was later to happen in Gathaithi. The Mover of the Motion, Eng. Maina, has correctly captured the activities during the day of the massacre. He has talked about 300 motorcycles. I want to correct him. Information on the ground had it that it was a convoy of 1,000 motorcycles, each having three people on it. So, that was a total of 3,000 people all brandishing crude weapons, which included pangas, bows, arrows and whatever else."
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