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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to condemn in the strongest terms possible the Government’s legitimisation of using crime to fight crime. Police has been shooting to kill suspects and branding them Mungiki . I want to say, as a Central Province leader and a Kenyan leader, that we are now rejecting that brand name.We want people to be arrested for specific criminal offences. When you use a generalised name, it is an excuse for persecution, extermination of our youth and an excuse for ethnic cleansing. During the Moi era, we were hearing of FERA in Western Kenya. It caused the harassment of many innocent people. We must refuse to be criminalised; that the existence of young men in the Mount Kenya region has now been criminalised. We want crime to be punished, but not under a brand name. We want to know the specific individuals. We want to know whether the police are, themselves, having gangs, which are committing offences and branding themselves M ungiki. We do not want phantom gangs. We want individuals behind crimes apprehended and taken to the police. If a Government fails to maintain law and order, it has no business to exist and that is why I had to leave this Government. I beg to support."
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