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    "id": 671256,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/671256/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for being magnanimous to me, the House and the country by allowing me to make a statement under Standing Order No.45(2)(a) on a matter of county issue and an issue of general topical concern. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am making a statement in relation to the extra-judicial killings of a young advocate and colleague, Mr. Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and the taxi driver who was driving them, Mr. Joseph Muiruri. The facts emerging about the death of those people are chilling, to say the least. These are Kenyans who, according to the Inspector-General of Police, were abducted by police officers. The Inspector-General, has consistently issued statements to the effect that the police abducted them. The details coming out of the post-mortem are so frightening that even mafia criminals do not kill their victims like that. Wille and his colleagues, were brutalized in a manner beyond comprehension, their bodies decapitated, loaded in gunny bags and dumped in a river. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if the police can do this, my colleague lawyers will tell you that there is Marxism; who will watch the watchers. The police are vested with the authority to protect lives and properties of the people of this country. The new Constitution transformed the police from a force to a service but we are quickly degenerating back to an even more brutal force than a service. We understand that the suspects have been arrested and I hope that the arrests are not a ploy to hide the truth because that is also possible. There is a possibility to pick on junior officers. An AP constable is unlikely to have an issue with a lawyer to an extent of arresting, capturing, abducting and brutalizing Mr. Kimani the way it happened. There must be some hidden big force somewhere. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
}