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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, KNC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Onyiego",
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        "legal_name": "Silvanus Osoro Onyiego",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My colleague here is making me laugh. I equally want to support the appointment of Mr. Mutyambai as the new IG and commend the work the good Committee has done in terms of getting to us a good report about him. I met Mr. Mutyambai first when I was in the Committee of Defence and Foreign Relations, and had a few interactions with him. I want to believe that he is a man who is able and up to the task. There are very many underlying issues that he will meet in the new capacity as the IG. To be a young person in this country is becoming an issue. At times when I pass through the City and where my private office is located, I see young men handcuffed every Friday and Saturday in the evening around 6.00 p.m. and the following day they are asked to pay Kshs1,000 or Kshs2,000 to be released. Others get some charges conferred upon them. Very simple charges are preferred against you that you were drunk and disorderly. You are forcefully placed in some vehicles and put in cells. At times you are released without trial after spending a weekend in the cells. That has been the norm in the Police Service for some time. It is about time we got a person who will change this narrative of police force to police service. That a police officer believes that he is above the law and that is the language of treating the suspects. This thing of being told “ utasemea mbele ”--- Those are the things that we are still facing after Independence. Young people who are arrested are not given an opportunity. Article 49 is not well actualised because you are not told the reason for your arrest. You are told you will say once you get to the station. Those are the challenges that we still have in Nairobi and other urban centres; harassment by police officers and at times the feeling that you cannot engage a police officer when you are arrested. Something else that is very important that I wish to state within the City of Nairobi is the police officers allowing themselves to be used by the county government officers to undermine the young men who are hustling in the City. I have seen young men riding motorbikes being The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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