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    "content": "are protesting can be asked to assemble in a place like Uhuru Park and a search be done by the police the way it is done when people are going for a meeting. The protestors are then released into Uhuru Highway to protest for two hours. The roads used by protestors will be blocked, the way they did it with the Standard Chartered Marathon and any other sports. The people will be given chance to protest for, say, about two hours. The public will be informed that in the next two hours, there will be protestors who will be moving from the airport to Uhuru Highway headed to the Anniversary Towers. Everybody will be told to avoid that route for it will be blocked. These laws will be very necessary. We must also deal with the issue that many people are talking about; the use of a criminal gang that invades protestors or are used by other protestors to invade innocent civilians. These are things that are in public domain. There was a young man who was shown on television burning a police car; another one was shown carrying a blood- stained knife, having stabbed an innocent old lady who was selling bananas. What has that got to do with protesting? So, all this can only be achieved – and I insist – only if we have a comprehensive process of investigating all these issues through a combined Committee of the National Assembly and the Senate. That will show the seriousness for this issue, even if it will be Joint Committee on Security in both Houses co-chaired by the two Chairpersons. Let us call and investigate this issue, have a report and provide a way forward. That seems to be the consensus across the board. But that does not stop the investigations going on at the moment dealing with individual cases of criminal responsibility by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). The IPOA is dealing with rogue policemen who might have committed actions of murder. This does not also stop the investigations by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Department which is dealing with civilians who committed acts of violence. I do not know where we went wrong in this country such that protests are synonymous with violence and teargas. Citizens are even demanding that it is their right to be teargased because the teargas has been bought using the tax payers’ money. I think all these things about chaos and so forth should just come to an end. I hope that the swearing in of the President marks the beginning of relooking at all the issues that happened on or just before 8th August, 2017 to just after 26th October, 2017. No other life will be lost. When we talk about life, it is a concern of both sides of the political divide. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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