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    "id": 767426,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "November 30, 2017 SENATE DEBATES 27 The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": ", Angola-Msumbiji, and may others. These criminal gangs have from time to time mutated into very dangerous operatives. You will remember that Angola-Msumbiji at one time made it impossible for people to sleep in parts of Kakamega and western Kenya. Today, we have an acting Minister for Interior and Coordination of National Government who is in charge of internal security who stands in public in front of cameras and declares himself a member of Chinkororo, a proscribed criminal gang and that is where part of the problem starts. Brutalizing citizens in the name of policing is very dangerous. Children have been killed and women have been raped but what you get is an inspector general who is completely at sea. You have a commander in Nairobi who has become a law unto himself and is extremely arrogant. When little Mutinda is shot at the balcony of his parents’ house, he appears on television and makes two contradictory statements. He starts by saying, “we are investigating” then concludes by saying “he was not killed by the police.” Why do you investigate yet everything points at the police? The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) is also fast asleep. There is a gentleman called Mr. Macharia who once in a while makes half-hearted noises about police misconduct. However, he does not seem to know what his commission is supposed to do. Once in a while when people from “wrong” communities feel and suffer the brutality of the police, you will see him on television making statements to the gallery to appear to be working. We need to change our psyche. Sen. Olekina, the Senator for Narok County has made it very clear and I agree with him. The 2010 Constitution changed the police force to a police service. In the old Constitution, it was a force. In some neighbouring countries they used to be called FanyaFujo Uone (FFU) and so on but we need a police service. If you get lost in the streets of United Kingdom, the best person to go to for assistance is a policeman. In this country, if you are in trouble and you meet a policeman, your troubles multiply. This is what we must reform. This is a House that came with a reformed Constitution and we must speak out. Once in a while, the distinguished Senate Majority Leader makes very positive noises about the rule of law. I encourage him to continue being consistent in resisting abuses by forces that are supposed to be civil in nature. Policemen and policewomen are paid salaries from our taxes. Their duty is to conform to the social contract which the two distinguished lawyers sitting in front of me know; that a citizen surrenders his power and authority to the state for protection and not to be brutalized, killed, shot, beaten, raped, harassed and done all manner of things. I urge my colleagues across the Floor to speak out on this because you never know when the shoe will be on the other foot. It can happen to anybody and anywhere. Silence is a language of the defeated. We must speak against these things because a life The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
}