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    "speaker_name": "The Member for Embakasi South (",
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    "content": "Hon. Julius Musili Mawathe): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the amendment. This being my maiden speech, I will request for indulgence on point and fact that I will share with you. First, I want to thank the people of Embakasi South for having elected me and having faith and confidence in me. I intend to and I will make sure that I serve them in these five years very diligently. Today, I do not stand here with a smiling face because the young boy that you are referring to who was murdered on Tuesday happens to come from my constituency in Pipeline Ward. The young boy no wonder how we might want to trivialise it, was innocently playing at the balcony together with two other boys. He was shot and bullet went in through one side of the head and came out through the other side of the head, a young boy by the name Geoffrey Mutinda. When the bullet came out through the other side of the head, it hit and lodged in the thigh of a pregnant lady who was bending washing her clothes. That is the point of brutality that we have got into as a country. Will we do something to correct the situation? I do not think anybody has a licence or authority to just go around firing bullets at will. I do not think that boy young as he was had done anything to warrant what befell him. Both parents are unemployed. Now they do not know left from right. Scuffles ensued after that. Obviously, it was between the officers because they saw who did it only that they were on a motorbike and they took off. When the officers attempted to come and retrieve the body, the crowd was still angry and agitated. We managed to get the boy out of that place with the assistance of one very able Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) of Embakasi, brother Mang’ira, at about 4.40 a.m. I think we need to do something drastically and very soon otherwise we are drifting in the wrong direction. 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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