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"speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
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"content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to respond to this Report. I will start with the visits made by Committee Members. When the Committee Members were in Lari District, the District Security Intelligence Committee in Lari concurred that on several occasions, bodies had been collected from Kinale and Gumbi forests. That is in this Report. Investigations indicated that the victims were killed elsewhere. That is what the Report says. That is why I was adamant while opposing the amendment that was being moved. On 15th September, 2010, four bodies with clear gunshot wounds were found dumped there. Again, on 18th September, two bodies were also found lying along the Mai Mahiu-Kijabe Road. If you go through this Report, you will see that it is true that the bodies were found within Lari District. The bodies were found in Kinale. However, those bodies were brought in from elsewhere, according to the Report. The killings were not done within Lari or in Kinale. That is what I said earlier. That is also what the Committee came up with and that is the truth of the matter. The Committee refuted cases of extra-judicial killings. That is also in the Report. I was being forced in this House to say that yes, there are extra-judicial killings. The Report says the opposite. Further, the victims whose bodies were found had not been in police custody as alleged. Lari District lacked the capacity to deal with crime outside the district, but they were working with the CID Headquarters to unravel the situation. The same Committee moved to Koibatek. You know very well that accusations had been made in this House and I had always denied the accusations. Today, the Report is quite explicit. It talks about what was on the ground, although we are being forced to accept certain issues. But the contrary is there. The Committee intended to investigate the suspicious deaths of two individuals in Koibatek District. In the first case, the deceased was reported to have died as a result of a hit and run accident. It is the police officers who reported the matter as a hit and run incident. This was also refuted by the members of the public who alleged that the deceased had been arrested before he was later found dead under mysterious circumstances. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when they went to Mogotio District, one, Alex Kiptum Kibor, was fatally shot by Administration Police officers, who were later arrested and charged with manslaughter. They were later released due to lack of evidence. The Report says that there was no evidence to implicate these officers. The Committee moved to Dagoretti District. There is no police station at Dagoretti despite increasing population and crime trends. In fact, we are considering Dagoretti. If we get land, we will put up a police station and an AP camp in Dagoretti to deal with the thugs within that area because the population is increasing on a daily basis. I think the Member for that area will help us to get land in order for us to put up a police division or station in the area. That will reduce the incidences of thuggery within that area. On the killings of three persons, whose bodies were found dumped at Kinale in Lari, the police could not furnish the Committee with postmortem reports, as this is usually conducted by police officers from where the bodies have been retrieved. The investigations were being conducted by the CID officers together with the police officers helping the Committee Members. The community members interviewed, alleged that one of the deceased, Mr. John Kamau, had been arrested before he was found murdered. A postmortem report indicated that he had seven gunshot wounds. There were no OB records in police stations where he is alleged to have been held. We are not hiding anything. We ask the Committee Members to come and peruse the OBs. There was not a single report which was made there. That means that the killings happened elsewhere and then the bodies were brought to that particular area. The Committee Members also moved to Kisauni District, which had experienced unrest instigated by land issues. We know very well that Coast Province has landless people. This is not something new to the Government and the Members of Parliament. During the unrest, four civilians and two policemen were seriously injured. The issues of drug abuse, unemployment and inadequate police presence were also identified as major causes of insecurity in Kisauni. We have revamped the Police Narcotics Division to go into the depth of the investigations in order to know the fellows who are trafficking and ferrying drugs. Soon or later, we will get to know who is who in the drug trafficking scenario. The Committee further went all the way to Nyakach to check what is happening there. It did a good job because in Nyakach, we have the cattle rustling menace. The Committee also found out that some politicians are involved in cattle rustling. The ordinary wananchi were speculating the names. If the names were given to the police officers, we would apprehend and arrest some of these fellows for them to tell us why they kill people and steal livestock. This problem is compounded by lack of enough physical facilities, especially in Pap Onditi Police Station which had only one vehicle which is being used in the entire district. The Member for Nyakach requested our Ministry to give him an additional vehicle in order for the police to trail the cattle rustlers."
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