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    "id": 233359,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Cheboi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 329,
        "legal_name": "Moses Kipkemboi Cheboi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be very brief though this is a sensitive matter. We gave him a set of issues which we thought if they were addressed, would stop 3838 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 22, 2006 the issue of tribal clashes in Kuresoi Constituency. This was not done and that is how the third round of clashes began. At the moment, the police who are stationed there are harassing innocent people. They know where the clashes were, but they do not want to go there because of fear or something else which I do not understand. They are targeting peaceful citizens and raping their women. In fact, the cause of the shooting of the four gentlemen is because they bumped into policemen who wanted to rape some women. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, chiefs have also been interdicted selectively. The Government is not telling us how these chiefs participated in these clashes. Four chiefs from one community who come from areas where there was peace have been interdicted and yet, there are some chiefs who were right inside the areas where the clashes occurred and because they do not come from a particular tribe, they have not been interdicted. What criteria is being used to interdict some chiefs and not others? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the police are moving with civilians. I have never understood civilian formations which get into police activities, so that as the police progress, the civilian who are following are actually burning houses. We have raised this issue with the Permanent Secretary, the Ministry, the Provincial Commissioner and the police. I had an opportunity to go to the---"
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