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    "id": 975176,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, let me first join my colleagues in giving hearty congratulations to Sen. Cherargei, the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights for this well documented report. In a country that respects the rule of law, extrajudicial killing is something that we should never condone. This is happening after we enacted ourConstitution in 2010, which gave a lot of hopes to the people of Kenya. It was the hope and expectation of many that with the creation of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA), we will never have impunity within the police force. However, if you speak to Kenyans who have been victims of extrajudicial killings, they will tell you that they have never gotten any justice from the IPOA. That is really unfortunate. There are many institutions that were created under the current Constitution that were supposed to enhance accountability within the police force. You all remember that when Maina Kiai used to be the Chair of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), he used to put police officers on toes. That is the time he used to expose incidences of police officers who were killing our youth extra-judicially.If you ask me today, I do not even know the current Chair of the KNCHR. They have gone silent and that is very unfortunate. These are the people who should keep the police officers on toes. Lawyers will tell you that the role of a policeman or woman is to gather evidence, arrest the perpetrators of any crime, and take them to court for trial and then the court of law will pass a sentence. When you have a situation where police officers want to be investigators, prosecutors and executors, you cannot say that you are in a country that respects the rule of law. We have been ridiculed in international fora. In 2008, the United Nations (UN) gave a damning report on Kenya on these issues of extra-judicial killings. We were being discussed in New York; shaming our country!"
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