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    "content": "A better way is to invite as many departments as possible including families and persons who can be good witnesses to appear before the Committee and we do a comprehensive investigation on this matter. That way we are able to --- I do not like to read statements about people dying on account of protests and all those kinds of things. Nobody will be very happy to do that because if you think about Mutinda who was seven years old, Pendo who was eight years old and so forth, it is the age of our children, those of us who are at this age. Nobody will be happy if you imagine that, that could be your child. The best way is to have the Committee of this House or jointly with the Committee of the National Assembly have a proper and comprehensive investigation to the issue including the circumstances around why people do what they do. It bothers me because when I was watching the news and reading statements in the social Media, there are now allegations and in the same statement of the Minister it is saying: “baby Pendo would have been shot by other criminal gangs who are trying to attack police.” The same is now being alleged in the case of Mutinda. Mr. Speaker Sir, this investigation will bring to rest the use of excessive force by the police or the use of criminal gangs and hooligans and murderers by political operatives and we do not want the Jeshi of Taliban and Angola Musumbiji to come back to our politics. We want clean politics. Losing life is not one of those issues that any of us will joke around in this house or elsewhere. Thank you, Mr. speaker, Sir."
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