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    "id": 77466,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 197,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
        "slug": "joshua-ojode"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, on 30th October, 2010, there was a golf tournament at the club and a large crowd of players and caddies assembled early to start the tournament. As the tournament was about to start, the assembled crowd noticed a Mitsubishi Truck off-loading an excavator within the grounds. A spontaneous outrage broke out and it is reported that caddies surrounded the truck, Reg. No.KAN 681F and the excavator Reg. No. KBM 3206 and set them ablaze. During the skirmishes, Messrs. Kenneth Kimari and Jackson Ng’ang’a Gitere were injured and treated at Avenue Hospital. The irate mob proceeded to the home of one of the men accused of encroachment on the club land, a Mr. Mutuku Wambua and torched his four bed-roomed house. The club officials alerted Kabete Police Station officers and AP officers based at Kabete Veterinary Laboratory who quickly moved to the site and arrested six persons. Those who were arrested were identified as Justus Oloo Matu, Jackson Kunga Kalii, Peter Mwaura Mbugua, Ibrahim Muvuro Akumu, Kamau Kanyaihu and Godfrey Ng’ang’a. The six were arraigned before the Kibera Principal Magistrate’s court and charged with arson, contrary to Section 33(2) of the Penal Code and malicious damage to property, contrary to Section 33(9)(1) of the Penal Code vide Kabete Police Station, No.CR163/138/210 and Kibera Law Courts Criminal File No.4782/2010. They denied the charges and were given bonds of Kshs500, 000 and surety of the same amount. They are still in police custody as they could not raise the bonds. It is clear that the involvement of police from both the regular Kenya Police and the AP in this matter was purely for restoration of law and order. The police were not used to defeat the cause of justice as the suspects arrested were destroying private property, attacking and injuring innocent citizens and threatening the peace and tranquility that existed at that particular time. The area is still under regular patrol by both the AP and the Kenya Police to ensure that peace prevails. I wish to table the list of institutions and individuals who benefited from this piece of land. I have a long list of those who were allocated this piece of land."
}