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    "id": 802906,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also want to join in supporting this statement. The most important responsibility of a government is to protect the life of its citizens, leave alone property. The first and foremost is beginning with life. In respect of the Coast – Mombasa, Kilifi, Lamu, Kwale and in some respects, the whole of North Eastern province such as Wajir, Garissa, Mandera and now Laikipia is being mentioned - I have had some experiences also to do with Laikipia; the unexplained and unjustified disappearances of citizens is not a matter which has started today or yesterday. It has been there for a long time. In fact, Sen. Faki would remember that this started with the days of the Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK). Many people who declared support for that party were either arrested or detained and incarcerated for a long time. Some of them simply disappeared. Normally, a disappearance of an ordinary citizen in the hands of other people is not something which is difficult to resolve. Somebody cannot just disappear in thin air in a town or village and the instruments of state cannot determine the whereabouts of such a person. That is why in the law, normally, the police should take seriously a report made of a missing person. The procedures are there under the law. However, in Mombasa particularly, the constant unexplained disappearance of particularly young people is a matter which is of grave concern. This happens after these people have been profiled. Once they know you are a young man of Islamic faith and you have certain views, instead of dealing with you in accordance with the law, you are abducted. That happens. Despite investigations, no answer seems to be forthcoming. People who are known in the Coast have disappeared in similar circumstances. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the problem with this matter is that we may wish it away. I was in New York at an important meeting of Amnesty International last week. Would you believe it, I have letters that were handed to me in that meeting by people from the United States of America and Kenyans there. The letters were addressed to the President of the Republic of Kenya, and talking about police brutality and disappearance of citizens. Even if we keep quiet about it, there are people out there who are taking these statistics and informing the rest of the world. In this meeting, there were leaders from the opposition in Ethiopia who had just been also released from prison in Ethiopia, some of them after serving a ten year sentence. 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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