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    "id": 325395,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/325395/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khang’ati",
    "speaker_title": "6 Tuesday, 2nd October, 2012 The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 42,
        "legal_name": "Alfred Khang'ati",
        "slug": "alfred-khangati"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that on 31st August, 2012, during the Administration Police Officers graduation ceremony held at the Administration Police Training College in Embakasi, while visitors scrambled and used force to enter the parade ground, a stampede occurred which resulted to the death of Mr. Joseph Mburu Miiru and Mrs. Keziah Wanjiru Njoroge both from Lari District, while Mr. Christopher Mitei from Transmara District died later on while undergoing treatment at the hospital. The two bodies were moved to the City Mortuary for preservation. A total of 13 others were injured and treated at the college’s health centre, Mama Lucy Kibaki and Kenyatta National hospitals. An Inquiry File No.3/2012 was immediately opened and is pending under investigations on what caused the stampede. (b) Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government has no specific provisions for such expenses. The Administration Police, on humanitarian grounds, met the hospital bills and funeral expenses, which included among other things, postmortem fees, mortuary bills and transportation of the bodies. Those finances came from their welfare kitty. As a matter of fact, it amounted to Kshs110,000. The Administration Police also provided transport to help with the transportation of the bodies and affected families. However, in view of the gravity of the matter, we are reviewing the support. We have already engaged the Ministry of State for Special Programmes to determine whether additional support could be granted to the affected families. (c) To mitigate against future incidents, we are going to limit the admissions only to the invited guests at every occasion. Also, the invited guests will be sensitized on the need to strictly observe crowd control and vetting rules, failure to which they will not be allowed into such ceremonies."
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