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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We have to be serious. We are playing with fire. I was an adult when there was detention without trial in this country. Detention without trial was a bad thing, but being killed in a police cell is worse. It reminds me of the impunity we saw when the then Vice-President Moi lied to the country that Josiah Mwangi Kariuki travelled out of the country when they had killed him. We saw the same impunity when the police told the country that Dr. Robert Ouko had committed suicide when they had killed him. It is the same impunity that I saw in South Africa in 1977 when an intellectual, Steve Biko, was brutalized in a police station and they faced the world and told the world that the guy had died from starvation. The whole world woke up and moved against South Africa to stop apartheid. I am asking that this matter be escalated to a level whereby we must bring fear in Government for the Government to respect human life. It is not enough to ask that the DIG resign. We want the same speed which we saw when our colleague was killed last month when arrests were made. We want Mr. Eliud Lagat to be arrested, so that he can record a statement from a police station for it to be clearer to him that he has a responsibility. The police officers who went to Migori and brought this boy from home to Nairobi, so that Lagat could see him when they were slapping him around should equally be arrested. Why are they walking free? As far as I am concerned, seeing the shape of that face, the guy could not possibly have wanted to hit the wall using the front of his head. We must protect our children. Members of Parliament in the National Assembly and here, that boy who is lying there, is not in any way different from our own children. It is this Parliament that will bring this to an end. It is too much and the thing must escalate."
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