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"speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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"legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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"content": "The recent killings in my home district, Kirinyaga, and in parts of Nyeri, is an indicator that something drastic needs to happen to the police force. For the last two years, the police force has been fighting Mungiki by perpetrating criminal acts on Kenyans. We cannot fight crime with crime. There is nothing in the law that permits police officers to become executioners. They are supposed to apprehend suspects and take them before a court of law. Use of fire is only allowed if the lives of the police officers, or citizens, are threatened. We now hear routinely of police gunning down this or that suspect. We no longer hear of arrests. Kenyans demand that the police officers follow the law. Citizens must also follow the law. I am calling upon the so-called vigilantes in my home district to know that once they arm themselves and burn peopleâs houses, they cease to be vigilantes and become criminals."
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