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    "id": 1604134,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "content": "There was a time in this country when people who used to speak their mind would be picked never to be seen. Sometimes, you would see them in courts pleading guilty after being tortured in the cells. We have been struggling for these things to be a thing of the past. It is sad to see injustice rearing its head again. This is not about the small boys. The big boys must have organised this kind of thing. I have never heard somebody being charged for making somebody infamous. I do not know the type of fame that a senior police officer would be looking for. Where does he want to go with that fame? This is something that should have been taken to a civil court. Somebody does not have to be arrested and put in cell because he has made somebody infamous. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have even seen people in this county share pictures of the President in the cells yet they have never been arrested. Is this police officer bigger than the President? Why can he not be arrested and interrogated? If we do not tackle this particular case up to the end, Kenyans will not believe us. Kenyans will not believe that we, leaders, are serious. I come from that region. What am I going to tell the people of Homa Bay when I go there? Can I tell them that we are in broad-based government yet I cannot explain to them how their son was picked and then put in some police cell? There are many police cells on the way starting with Oyugis. We also have police cells in Homa Bay, Kisii and Kisumu. There are so many police cells around there. Why this particular police station---"
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