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    "id": 583447,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kakamega County has the longest border with Nandi County. Reports filtering from Kapsabet to Kakamega are indeed very worrying. I would like this Statement to clarify the role of the Office of the Governor. Reports reaching funerals is that the Governor either directly or indirectly has introduced an element in Kapsabet of ethnic profiling of the youth so that in an incident where two sets of receipts are issued so as to cover up for fraud, when there is discontent someone is setting up Luhya and Nandi youth against each other. We would like a comprehensive report on that. In Kakamega, the harassment is such that the Office of the Governor has set up an elite force in the name of enforcement officers. These people move around with Administration Police who give them security and they seize boda bodas and beat the young men. The young men are literally at the mercy of these so-called enforcement officers of the Governor for Kakamega. The Statement should also indicate whether there is any law passed in this Senate or elsewhere that gives governors the power to form an alternative police force. I remember that it is the Senate Majority Leader who attempted here through legislation to form a metropolitan police force. We had to pass that law. Where do the governors get the power to create the so-called enforcement officers who end up doing policing but they are just goons? They harass people; take merchandise from mama mbogas and so on. This matter must be brought to light."
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