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    "id": 1581985,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kigumo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Munyoro",
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    "content": "and came to vandalise shops, we will be lying to ourselves. There must be people behind this and those people must be brought to book. They must be called out. We must be a nation of law and order. We are a nation that follows the Constitution that we made. We must hold the Government accountable when the Constitution is violated. That is why I spoke about the Police Act. We have an Inspector-General of Police who is working independently of the State. He can investigate and arrest those who caused the mayhem. Those who lost their livelihoods have no one else. Unless we want to become a banana republic, where everyone takes the law into their own hands, where shopkeepers bear weapons to defend themselves, we must act. The onus is on the State. The Government must protect property. The Government must protect life. The Government must protect the livelihoods of the people it serves. That is my point. At no time or point do I support violence, whether against an individual or a leader. If people need to demonstrate, until we make new laws in this House, they will go by what we have in the Constitution. I think that is only fair, because that is what they know."
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