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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kingi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the President",
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        "legal_name": "Amason Jeffah Kingi",
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    "content": "I would rather somebody came up with evidence that this particular incident was stage-managed instead of going round everywhere saying that the incident was stage-managed. It is not fair for us as Kenyans to keep on making such wild allegations. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as far as Kuresoi Constituency is concerned, I want to agree with hon. Cheboi that he came to my office and we had a long discussion about the activities that are going on in Kuresoi. During those discussions, which we held in the presence of the hon. Member for Molo, we agreed that they would identify a committee. I told them that the Government was ready to sponsor a peace-building initiative in the area. We were supposed to get a list of names of members of that committee from them and begin work from that point. They have not come back to us yet, but the moment they do so, we shall continue with that initiative. With regard to the rapist, we are still doing our investigations. It is not possible to go to a farm where these people work and simply start arresting people unless we have clear indications of the criminals we are looking for. It is very unfortunate to come to this House and allege that police officers are harassing innocent citizens. When Kenyans arm themselves with bows and arrows and torch houses and when they are ordered to surrender some of them refuse to oblige and instead go on to shoot a November 22, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3841 police officer, what do you expect the other police officers to do? What we are saying is that people should allow police officers, chiefs and ourselves to continue doing the necessary work. With regard to the incidents in Kibera, I said that investigations are still going on. We shall continue carrying out investigations and if there are any people with information that can help us, we are asking them to go and write a statement with the police so that we can apprehend the criminals. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to the recent incident where a prayer assembly to be held in Kamkunji was cancelled, this was not the first time we were cancelling a meeting in Nairobi. Two weeks ago, we cancelled a rally that was to take place in Kibera. We did so after consulting with some hon. Members of Parliament who are seated here today. We felt that the situation in Nairobi was not calm enough to warrant such gatherings. Whatever we did was in good faith. There was no politics involved because we are only concerned with the security of our people. This Government has no intention of returning this country to the old dark days when some hon. Members here were in Government. We will never do that. In fact, we have provided Kenyans with a platform and latitude of freedom. Let hon. Members be assured that the days of the infamous Nyayo torture chambers are long gone and we shall never go back there."
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