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    "id": 802886,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We must condemn every time the police take away a person without following the due process. Life in Kenya has become meaningless; the right to life, under Article 26, is meaningless. In Kenya, all you have to do is be in a vehicle in a city park or walk on the streets and you will be shot dead by the police. All you have to do is be in Mutindwa in Embakasi, playing on the balcony and a stray bullet is shot somewhere in the street and hits you. Alternatively, you can be casually walking anywhere in the city and you die. You can also be in a plane from Kitale to Nairobi and your pilot is misdirected, and you die. Life has lost meaning and we do not condemn it. You can be Willy Kimani; you walk into a police station, defending your client; the police get you, put you in a sack, torture you, cut you into pieces and throw you in a river because nothing will happen to them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to challenge you even if we are not supposed to challenge you. You called us for a meeting on counter strategy on terrorism. The Anti- Terrorism Committee said that they have a county plan on how to deal with terrorism. We made submissions early in the morning over breakfast, when we were fresh and knew what we were talking about. We said we needed to discuss the question of terrorism and how the youth of this country, particularly the Muslims, are being discriminated. We said that these county plans need to come to the Senate so that we can speak to the youth because we have some influence. However, that breakfast ended the way it did and nothing has happened. Mr. Speaker, Sir, while we cannot condone terrorism, we cannot allow people’s lives to be taken away so casually and it is business as usual. They find you, shoot you, take you to the forest along Nairobi-Nakuru Highway, and then people cry at your funeral and that is the end. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my learned colleague, Senator 001 belongs to the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, while Sen. Dullo was in the Kenya National Commission onHuman Rights (KNCHR). The statistics of extra-judicial killings have The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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