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    "id": 349074,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 22,
        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we come to the end of this Tenth Parliament, we have much to celebrate for. We can look back to the realization of the new Constitution and the challenge of implementation that lies ahead, and praise ourselves for the struggle to realize this Constitution. In getting this Constitution, every Member of this House has played a valuable role. At a personal level, I feel this was one of the greatest achievements for us as Kenyans since Independence. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we look forward to Eleventh Parliament and the realization of the full benefits of this new Constitution, we have every reason to thank you for the able manner in which you have led this House. We have reason to thank the President for the manner in which he has led this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this was the President at one time when we began this struggle in the second liberation, we called him “General Kiguoya”; but he led us to war and a successful war for the first time in our history. So, we have every reason to be proud of country and our armed forces for the successes they have had in the neighbouring region and for chairing the peace in the region even as we continue with the challenge of stabilizing our neighbourhood in Somalia and South Sudan. We also have a reason to celebrate that the Grand Coalition Government (GCG) has actually lasted five years. When we elected you the Speaker of this House and witnessed the signing of the National Accord, after which the GCG took office, many of us did not believe that the GCG would last but it has lasted, and it has some achievements that can be said about it. Chief among them is the infrastructure development that we have seen in this country. We can be proud about the superhighways and the other benefits that we are seeing. However, all this came at a high cost. In the human rights field, we have witnessed the largest scale of extra-judicial killings in this country. We have had many young Kenyans who lost their lives in the hands of rogue police officers but we are yet to bring to book those responsible. We can, however, be proud that we have achieved a big measure of the reforms within the police force with the appointment of the Inspector- General of Police and the promise of the police reforms that are now gradually taking place. Had this not happened, the things that we are seeing, like in the Rift Valley Province, where rogue police officers can serve for many years in full view of their colleagues without being exposed would never have happened. One hopes that when the full investigation is carried out, what happened in Baragoi will be exposed, so that never again will our police officers get involved in the practice of selling cattle in the criminal enterprises like that we saw in Baragoi. One hopes that the investigations will reveal the true nature and content of what happened in Baragoi and we will get to know who the 45 police officers who were supposed to have died were. We keep hearing that it was not police officers who died but"
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