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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Article 37 of the Constitution is an important right that is supposed to be supported by all. It was intended to facilitate peaceful movement of people protesting an issue. Those people are to be unarmed and are to be supported in terms of security by the police to take their petitions to wherever they want to take those petitions. What happened on 25th June and 7th July is a terrifying issue. We saw excesses by the police, but we also saw excesses by the ordinary people. I am glad Sen. (Dr.) Murango put it well that this is not a matter of who is supporting the Government and who is not supporting the Government. Everybody, from both aisles or from whatever political persuasion you come from, should see the wrong in excessive use of forces by the police. We should also be able to see the wrong in the incitement and arming of young people and getting them to destroy property. So, whoever organized goons, from whatever political persuasion they came from, is wrong to have done what they did. We, as a House, need to hopefully get back the country to understand that there is a right in Article 37 of the Constitution. However, all those who are involved, the police and the demonstrators, should also know that they have individual rights with none being more superior to the other. We have to move to a level where we respect this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is my hope that the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations will look at this issue objectively. I also hope that they will help us, as a country, to call out those who fell short of the standard, regardless of whether they belong to Government or not. I pray that this will help us to bounce back on the track of what was intended when we, as the people of Kenya, put Article 37 within the Constitution. Allow me to also support the Statement by Sen. Faki. It is my view that our local carrier has become so expensive that instead of buying a Kenya Airways ticket to Mombasa or Kisumu, you might as well buy a ticket from another airline to go to Uganda or West Africa."
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