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    "id": 1604137,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we address Kenyans this afternoon, a post mortem report has come out and it states that the late Ojwang’ died due to neck compression. This means that he was squeezed with an intention of being killed. It has also stated that he suffered soft tissue injuries all over the body. That means that a gang, inside a police cell of the Republic of Kenya, was used to murder this young boy. The post mortem has also stated that he had head injuries. The conclusion from five pathologists associate these injuries with external forces inflicted in keeping with assault. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you are a lawyer. What this assault means is that we have police officers in the Republic of Kenya who arrest citizens, assault them and murder them yet we are behaving as if it is normal. We are here speaking for three minutes in the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. This is a serious matter. It can bring a revolution. We cannot tolerate a situation where a Government that is supposed to take care of citizens is watching as innocent citizens are murdered in a police cell. Picture this: this young man is the sole child of his aged parents. He has left behind a wife with a three year old and three months old children. What will prick our conscious if this one does not? We cannot allow this. We get abused on social media every day. I have seen occasions where even the President has faced attacks on social media, but we do not react by murdering people. I am asking the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations to summon all heads of security to this House tomorrow. It should not be the day after tomorrow, but tomorrow. They should come and give us an explanation. If not, we have no reason to speak as people who have been elected to represent the people. We cannot have a case like this in a country that is democratic and independent. I am speaking with a lot of anger because I am a father. How would you feel if it were you? Picture yourself, your child, being arrested in Nyanza, brought to Nairobi, and killed in a police station. If that had happened, Sen. (Dr.) Oburu Oginga, you would not be here. Even the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga would not be alive today if successive governments had behaved the way we are behaving. These are extraordinary times. At the end of this Statement, we expect you to issue a directive that---"
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