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    "id": 94841,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, it is quite unfortunate that we have lost lives in Kakamega as a result of criminal activities. I sympathize with the situation that Dr. Khalwale has experienced of lives lost. There are allegations made in this House, but there were incidences of criminal activities in Nairobi, they transferred to Mombasa and later to Kakamega. It is quite unfortunate that I do not have the statistics for me to agree with what Dr. Khalwale has said. What has happened in Kakamega is not something that we can sit back and watch. If you go to Kakamega now, you will see something else. The whole Government is in Kakamega. I have beefed up security to patrol 24 hours within Kakamega Town and its environs. I have deployed detectives to identity the taxi drivers who are colluding with the criminals. So far, I have managed to arrest six taxi drivers out of the nine who were arrested. I am doing that in order to bring normalcy in Kakamega. This is not something which we can sit back and watch. I am extending the same to the motorcyclists because the criminals are using them to ferry the same gangs to rob within the environs of Kakamega Town. We have identified the cyclists who ferry the gangs to rob the villages within the environs. I will give you one example. A month ago, an Assistant Chief’s daughter was killed in Shinyalu. We have arrested the two fellows who committed this heinous act, and they have been charged with murder. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are not going to let go anybody who feels that he can take the life of an innocent person any time. He is going to face the wrath of the police. Equally, police officers who are involved in any criminal activity, whether paid or not paid, even before we implement the reforms, you will see what we are going to do to them. The law is there. It will take its own course. We are not going to leave anybody who is involved in any criminal activity. There was a time when the Chair called me, when three watchmen were hacked to death in Emuhaya. Heads will roll. I want to assure this House that if, indeed, police officers were involved – although I know that my police officers are innocent – I will have no choice because the law is very clear. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have been asked what it is that we are doing to hardcore criminals who were released recently. If a hardcore criminal has been released, and he continues with his criminal activities, he will be taken back to prison. In fact, out of the nine suspects, one or two are amongst those who were released recently. It sometimes really pains me to divulge even the names of those who have been arrested, because we are still pursuing some of their colleagues. As to whether the Advisory Board is doing the right job or not, that is left to the Attorney-General; the Attorney-General is a member of the Advisory Board. They are the people who decide on who to be released and who is not to be released. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Dr. Nuh asked whether the hardcore criminals got some training while in prison. I might not know that because my docket does not include training of inmates in prisons."
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