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    "id": 274763,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I was actually going to seek a Ministerial Statement today afternoon, but in light of the opportunity that Mr. Imanyara has, unfortunately, given us, I wish to state that there are incidents that have been documented in the last one month of excessive use of force by police and connivance by the police in criminal activities, especially around Nairobi, and especially around the Kilimani Area. Those are details that have been in the Press; they are in the open. I want to say that as the Assistant Minister prepares to bring the substantive answer, first, we would want to see the substantive Minister. We would like to see this issue answered by the substantive Minister. Secondly, we would like to interrogate the role of the Commissioner of Police. We have done it before in this House when there were extra-judicial killings, where over 10,000 young men from Central Province were killed. We asked questions here. Today, we are going back to extra-judicial killings in the name of criminals; there are definite extra-judicial killings happening. There is also intimidation because of political affiliations. We want to know whether this Commissioner of Police is politically affiliated to one side, and whether this intimidation will continue. We are not afraid anymore to speak out. We spoke out too late and we lost 10,000. We do not want to speak out too late and lose Kenyans and even political leaders of this country who are being intimidated."
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