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    "id": 678040,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/678040/?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": " Madam Temporary Speaker, if my colleagues did not jump on points of order, I would have finished my point. I was talking of the manner in which the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government has been acting in serious contradictions of our expectations. When I talked about Mr. Kofi Olomide, in fact, Sen. Hassan literally took words out of my mouth. The distinguished Senator for Tharaka-Nithi is a professor of law. He knows that in all cases of grievous assault like what we saw, the complainant is not an individual. It is the State. If you commit a homicide, the complainant is the State, the Republic of Kenya. It is the Republic versus the murderer, the Republic versus the assailant, the Republic versus the robber or the Republic versus the thief. It is never distinguished Sen. Ongoro versus me as an assailant, for instance. It is the case of the Republic versus so and so, because the complainant is the Republic that is the custodian of everybody’s peace and security. With the footage that we saw, if it was true, it was sufficient to take this Congolese man to court and charge him with assault, behaving in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace and all manner of coinages of crime that the State is so good at doing in collaboration with the policemen. In fact, in the footage, there was a Kenyan woman who said, “ Sasa wanapigana wenyewe kwa wenyewe ? The complainant did not have to say she was beaten. She was seen being beaten. There were witnesses. 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"
}