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    "id": 767381,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Outa",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 133,
        "legal_name": "Fredrick Otieno Outa",
        "slug": "fredrick-outa"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, my heart is really heavy on this matter. I want to tell the Senate Leader of Majority that I do not want to take this Statement casually because we have lost lives especially in Kisumu County where your report only mentioned a few guys who were killed including baby Pendo. There are more people who were brutally killed by the police and baby Pendo was not even shot but she was clobbered. The police climbed up the stairs and found a small innocent baby and clobbered her to death. We are all Kenyans, however, today I might be on the wrong side of politics where I do not have protection and yet the Constitution requires that all Kenyans must be protected by the police. They should protect our lives and properties. I agree with Hon. Senators who have spoken. We need this country to heal. The life that has been lost now is more than enough. We do not want to henceforth get to hear that the police continue using excessive force to kill Kenyans. We should go deeper and have a thorough investigation and bring to book people who have committed crimes in the name of police officers. In Kisumu, somehow, they were caught. I do not know what to call them, but they were not police officers. Some of them were alleged to have been recruited by the Government to act in a manner that they will kill, maim and even rape women. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not want to dwell on this matter, but I would want to encourage that we should not take this lightly but come up with thorough investigations. If all the police who will be considered to have committed these atrocities and have killed innocent Kenyans are identified, they must be convicted and charged according to our laws. That would be my plea because this country needs to move forward. If we do not check that, then the police will continue to use excessive force and continue to kill Kenyans. We therefore, must deal with it. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}