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    "id": 282449,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282449/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 197,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
        "slug": "joshua-ojode"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that Ms. Saida Hussein, a former teacher, was allegedly shot dead by people believed to be police officers during an exchange of fire between police and cattle rustlers near Livestock Marketing Department Quarters in Isiolo on 28th March, 2012. (b) The circumstances surrounding the death are that on the same day at about 10.30 a.m., it was reported to the police by one Mr. Peter Ekai that three Turkana herdsmen who were moving their goats and sheep from Eremet to Maili Saba were attacked and shot dead by bandits believed to be Borana tribesmen, who had also stolen their livestock and were moving them towards Livestock Marketing Department Quarters in the outskirts of Isiolo Town. A contigent of security officers comprising of the GSU and Administration Police (AP) officers were dispatched to pursue and recover the livestock. The bandits were sighted some distance away as they moved towards Livestock Marketing Department Quarters. Three of the bandits were sighted entering the Borana manyatta. As the officers approached the manyatta, they came under heavy fire from unknown people shooting from the cover of the manyatta. The officers responded by firing in the air owing to a high civilian population in the manyatta as the residents started pelting the officers with stones, forcing them to withdraw to avoid injuring innocent civilians. However, soon after withdrawal, a report was received at Isiolo Police Station that a Borana female adult, Saida Hussein, aged 37 years, and a teacher at Kilimani Primary School, had been shot and had died instantly in her house. Immediately after the report was received at Isiolo Police Station the OCPD, the DCIO, Isiolo, and a team of police officers visited the scene and investigations commenced immediately vide Inquest File No. 15/2012. At the scene, five spent cartridges and one bullet head of 7.62 millimeters ordinary caliber were collected and forwarded to ballistic experts for forensic analysis. The report is still awaited and the case is pending under investigation."
}