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    "id": 975102,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/975102/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": ". That was part of the police. We have removed ‘force’ and we are now a service; Utumishi kwa Wote, and not Ukatili kwa wote. If you go to Majengo and other places that the Senator for Kiambu County and the Chairperson have been counting, you will meet horror stories. Mothers there would tell you how their sons were taken away and castrated, or how their sons were taken away and never seen again. One mother in Majengo told me, “I have two sons, and they have both been castrated by the police. Now they are just there like the Ethiopian eunuch of the Bible.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this country has to change. Crime does not help the country because it retards development, but when it is being committed by the watchers, then the lawyers ask: who will watch the watchers? Like the Chairperson said, where the police transgress the law, it is unlikely that they can investigate themselves. In Uganda, the Baganda have a saying, “ Ekima etesala kwa kibila;” meaning that a monkey cannot be trusted to investigate the affairs of the forest, because that is where it lives. It cannot, therefore, investigate or sit on a panel to abolish the forest. It cannot work! The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) was created specifically because of these transgressions. Unfortunately, every roadblock has been put in their way. Every frustration has been visited on them until they are not able to investigate."
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