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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for this opportunity. I agree partially with the Address and, therefore, my thanks will be partial, and not whole. On the statement that the Grand Coalition Government has focused or/and has sought to improve the lives of our people, I want to say that if they have tried, then they have failed because a majority of the people cannot afford even their daily meals. A majority of the people cannot access the basic services such as healthcare and housing. Even the education that is supposed to be free when children have no food and no proper shelter, not everybody is benefiting. Therefore, this is an area that the Government has to think about. When we talk of the economy, yes, it is growing but is there any trickle down effect to the common man? These are issues that the Government has to address; before the Grand Coalition pats itself on the back, it should know these are the deficiencies that are there. The disparities in income are growing instead of narrowing. It is true that we have passed legislations beginning with the Constitution and legislation to support human rights. But what is the behaviour of Government agencies, for instance, the police? In the course of law enforcement, they are behaving like the Constitution and our laws do not exist; they trample on people’s rights. We cannot stop the police from doing their duty of law enforcement but they do not have to be brutal in order to do so. We watched as they clobbered a young man – it was shown on all the media – in Limuru. If the Commissioner of Police apologized because of the same sort of behavior to a young man in Turkana, he should then have acted by now on the officers shown clobbering somebody who was totally unarmed. I am saying that where there is need, the police must enforce the law, but they do not have to be brutal. On human rights, the Government cannot score whatsoever."
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