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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a crucial and important Motion. I want to thank my colleague, the Hon. Member for Kimilili, Capt. Rtd. Didmus on this. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to speak with a heavy heart. These are not things to take lightly. It is usually the poor and the weak in society who are subjected to these kinds of events on a wide scale. They may be random events that target the middle and upper class but when you see this kind of thing moving from village to village, it is the poor who cannot defend themselves who are subjected to this. The worst case is advising people to go and pray. I am seated next to the Bishop. He will excuse me, sorry. People are being murdered and we are here saying we should pray. No! We have the Constitution and the law that define what should happen when people commit crimes. We must hold the police and its leadership accountable. I get pained with the conflicts of the recent past and during the elections. There are huge attempts to exonerate the police because now people think anytime you say the police were inactive or not responsive, they see it in a NASA or Jubilee divide and, that is extremely unfortunate. We are talking about a case in which police are not far from where the scenes of crimes are occurring. These people are trained, have the means with which to go and follow through and they do not and yet they are on taxpayers’ expense all the time. We must hold the police and its leadership accountable. It has nothing to do with the Jubilee/NASA divide so that we go out of our way to jump and say that the police are not to blame and that we should stop blame games. We are talking about accountability in the law. I do not think we should relent on this. We can pray when burying but we should not pray in terms of follow up. 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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