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    "content": "kidnappings and subsequent murder of the children or whether the suspect was acting alone or incorporation with other persons. In the investigation, the public has been of a lot of help through provision of information. The Government is not aware that the suspect; Newton Kipleting is a repeat offender as records held by the police do not have such information. Further, my Ministry has no vote to cater for the cost of burial expenses. The Government is not aware of the disappearance of 40 students from Kakamega County and about 30 youth from Tana River County. However, the Government is aware of the disappearance of the following persons. I believe my colleagues can look at the statement. They are about 11 persons from Tana River District and they are between the ages of 17 and 35. Kakamega County, there are about 12 persons between the ages of 17 and 41 years. This clearly shows there are no students that have been reported in Kakamega missing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government is aware that on various dates, in the last one year, bodies have been retrieved from Ol Donyo Sabuk River. The incidents include:- On 5th December, 2015, a badly decomposed body of an African male adult was retrieved near Mithini area in River Athi and was escorted to City Mortuary in Nairobi for postmortem. On the 7th April, 2016, the body of an African juvenile aged about four years was retrieved at Kangemi area without the head and the right leg. The body was escorted to City Mortuary. On 8th April, 2016, a decomposed body of a well built African male adult was retrieved near Fourteen Falls and taken to the City Mortuary pending investigation. On the 29th May, 2016, a decomposed body of a well built male African adult was retrieved near Fourteen Falls and taken to the City Mortuary. On 30th June, 2016, three dead bodies of Lawyer Willy Kimani Kinuthia, Joseph Mwenda Mwathi and Joseph Thinguri Muiruri were retrieved from River Athi in Machakos County and transferred to Nairobi City Mortuary. Four suspects have been arrested and arraigned in court. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to state that the Government has no policy to promote extra judicial killings. Any police officer who kills will be held personally liable for his or her conduct. Further, the Government is not aware of any relationship between extra judicial killings and the ongoing vetting of senior police officers. In addition, the Government has not formed a squad within the National Police Service with a mandate to carry out extra judicial killings. Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government has employed appropriate security measures to ensure all the learning institutions are secured and conducive for learning, both for the pupils, students and teachers and to ensure students do not disappear. This includes continuous profiling and registration of new students, frequent meetings among stakeholders in the education sector and local leaders to discuss the modalities of addressing any concern in the learning institutions, vetting of religious leaders who conduct pastoral education to ensure radicalization is not spread during such pastoral sessions, proper monitoring of school dropouts to ensure they are not recruited by terrorist groups. There should be stringent control measures on movements of visitors into institution compounds. Kenya has undertaken continuous training to ensure capacity among the security agencies on techniques to combat terrorism particularly in areas of 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"
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