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    "id": 78780,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, for many years, we have heard our brothers and sisters from the North cry about how they have been treated as second class citizens. When you travel up there, they still say that when they come to Nairobi, they have arrived in Kenya. But they have been treated as people who are not equal before the law for many years. This can no longer be allowed to happen with the new Constitution. Under Article 27, every person is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law. But those who brutalized that chief, Mr. Abdilahi Yusuf, I am not even sure whether they are aware of the provisions of this new Constitution. The Government has talked of re-training our security forces. We have heard that they will be re-trained, but they still remain the same brutal force when they are supposed to be a service. They are supposed to be a police service and not a police force. The force they used against Mr. Abdilahi Yusuf cannot be justified. What we have heard in this House today is a shame to the nation. It is something that we will ask the Government, before they do anything, to give an apology to the people, particularly to the family of Abdilahi Yusuf and those who were brutalized by the police forces and to take action against them. But the Government must also move to tell this country and, particularly, those who serve it as chiefs whether, indeed, they are still part of this Government or not; whether, indeed, they are going to restructure the administration to include the chiefs or not. That is because with what is happening already, chiefs everywhere in the country, not only in the North, are worried whether they are still part of the system. However, as my colleagues have said, for one to be beaten in the manner in which Abdilahi was beaten and yet he was wearing the crown of State, leaves a lot of questions to be answered. We urge that immediate action be taken against those people. Thank you!"
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