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    "id": 78803,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. For the benefit of my colleagues, I want to be very brief in my contribution. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, whilst I support this Motion, it has been said very clearly that this culture of maiming, raping and killing people in northern Kenya has been something that has been ongoing. But the expectation of the people from northern Kenya has been that, at least, with the promulgation of the new Constitution, this culture will come to a complete halt. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I go back to the events of when hon. Affey moved the Motion to repeal the Indemnity Act, the President wrote back a Memorandum. In the explanatory notes to the Memorandum was the fact that even in international law, the officers are allowed to carry out some actions in acts of combat. What baffles is: When security forces are sent to go and police the northern parts of Kenya, are they sent there for combat or to protect the citizenry of northern Kenya? With the Memorandum that came from the President and the current happenings, it is clear that when police are sent to other parts of Kenya, they go to restore law and order and protect the wananchi. But when they are sent to northern Kenya, then they are up for combat and to instill fear. That is why they are allowed to carry out acts of impunity. They kill and maim and none of them is brought to account. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, desperate times call for desperate measures. These are desperate times. If we do not prove that the new Constitution is not just a piece of paper, but a legislative agenda that the people of Kenya must live within, this has to be a turning point for the Ministry. We have to see the Ministry acting in accordance with the Constitution for us to have confidence in what we passed as a Constitution; that it"
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