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    "id": 728139,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "My last point is on the issue of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). Again, when we budgeted, it came from the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I think that is a very sensitive commission and the Bill of Rights in our Constitution and the job of the KNCHR is to make sure the freedoms and rights of Kenyans are promoted and protected widely. There are extrajudicial killings of poor youths in slums of Nairobi by the police, in places like Eastleigh and Kibra day in, day out. We need to get a robust commission that can hold government and State agents accountable. We really need to fund them. It is Kshs450 million this year, but it is something to be thought about. We really need to make sure that, that commission has the resources to respond to human rights violations, to prevent, train, build capacity and engage from the north to the south of Kenya, from the east to the west and in urban centres, especially where a lot of young people are in poverty. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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