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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to give a background to these sad issue. It is very sad that a Kenyan policeman is missing in Liberia. Allow me to give some chronology of events in this matter. Mr. Adan Hassan Abikar was in the month of May, 2006 sent by the Kenya Government as United Nations mission peace-keeper in Sipold Division of Liberia. In Liberia the officer was in a station with a fellow Kenyan police officer by the name Constable Elijah Mong'are, with whom he resided in the same house. In the evening of 12th August, 2006 the said Adan Abikar was driving home in a United Nations vehicle when he was involved in a slight road accident. The said officer was not injured, though the victim, the pedestrian, a Liberian child, was slightly injured. The accident was reported to the UN security team, who investigated the accident as is normal. On 13th August, 2006 Adan Abikar was left in the house by his Kenyan colleague, Mr. Mong'are, who went to pick other civilian police colleagues for duty. By around 10.00 a.m. Adan Abikar had not reported on duty and his colleague went to check on him in the house. They were informed by a civilian neighbour, a neighbour of Mr. Mong'are, who acted as a gate-keeper, that he had left a few minutes earlier in a hired taxi to town. He did not carry any of his belongings, his documents, or even his UN identification documents. That was the last time the officer was seen alive. An official report of disappearance was made by the Kenya civilian police contingent, Commander to the Liberian Police, the UN Department of peace-keeping in New York and to the Kenya Government. Efforts to trace the officer commenced and a task force was formed comprising of the UN Mission in Liberia and Liberian national police. The Kenya Government also sent a team of three officers to Liberia between 27th August and 10th September, 2006 to team with the UN task force and assist in the investigations into the disappearance. In spite of all the efforts made to unveil the mysterious disappearance the officer has not been traced to date. Given these circumstances, I was considering, on humanitarian ground, for the family to stay in the house. Regarding the issue of the salary, we will check within the legal framework if it is possible. Otherwise, this thing should not be politicised, because it is a sad issue that we have lost one of our July 3, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1635 police officers."
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