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    "id": 416382,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/416382/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "The CIC talked to the Committee and one of the things that the CIC said - and if you allow me to quote - is on Article 26 of the Constitution. It says:- “The issue of using firearms for protection of life and property needed to have stopped at protection of life not and property.” The CIC mentioned stated:- “The proposed amendment violates the rights to life by permitting extra judicial intentional killing of persons held in custody and escaping custody. There can be no justification for this proposed amendment. That is because Clause 54 as the existing provision that allows for use of force in a case where a prisoner escapes and threatens the life of another. There is no justification for killing a human being to defend property where there is no threat to life.” These were the words of the CIC to the Committee. So, when we still have a provision in the amendments still talking about protection or using firearms to protect property. I think this is not very right and this is one thing that the Committee might want to look at again for purposes of improving the amendment."
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