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    "content": "Article 20(1) says:- “The Bill of Rights applies to all law and binds all States organs and all persons”. Today, you will find institutions of Government that violate this Constitution and article of the Bill of Rights. Today, under the guise of fighting terrorism, security agents can wake up in the wee hours of the night and raid residential houses of Kenyans. Today, you will see in this country, a segment of the population, the Muslim community being denied their fundamental right to acquire registration documents. If you name is Mohamed or Khan you need to go through a specific procedure outside the Constitution, and outside what ordinary Kenyans go through for you to get an identity card, a passport and a job opportunity in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want a human rights commission that lives up to its mandate of protecting the articles within the Bill of Rights. Today Kenyans will remember that over the last 47 years of Independence, a community in northern Kenya has suffered human rights violations. You can remember the Wagalla Massacre, the Burning of Garissa, the burning of human beings and their property in Malkamari in Mandera. We do not want to see a human rights commission that works at the whim of the western powers; that listens to donors. We want a human rights commission that draws its obligations from this House; that reports to this House and that will make sure all State organs will implement the Bill of Rights. Article 32(1) of the Constitution gives every person the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion. We must make it very clear under the Bill of Rights that no time will come under this Constitution that a Muslim will be segregated, discriminated, terrorized and criminalized for believing in his faith, having a long beard or wearing the kanzu. There are those who say that when you have a long beard and you wear a kanzu then that is symbolic of a terrorist. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Article 21(1) says:- “It is a fundamental duty of the State and every State organ to observe, respect, protect, promote and fulfill the rights and fundamental freedoms in the Bill of Rights.” This nation has come of age. This nation has enacted a new Constitution. This nation must protect the rights and fundamental human dignity of its citizens across the board without fear, favour or discriminating against one section. Today, under this new Constitution, Kenyan Muslims are languishing in jails in Uganda just because the Ugandan Government feels that those Kenyan Muslims participated in a terror attack. We have no problem, but those Kenyans can be tried in their own country under their own judicial system. You remember in 2007, in the wee hours of the night, Kenyan Muslims were taken to Ethiopia. You remember even last week the anti-terror police raided residential houses even in the Holy Month of Ramadan in Mombasa and took Muslims into custody on suspicion that they were members of terror networks within the Kenyan society. We say: Enough is enough! We, as the leadership of the Muslim community, are ready to stand by the Constitution. We are ready to support the establishment of a human"
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