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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "It is unfortunate that often times, the people who fall victim to these extrajudicial killings are our youth aged between 15 years and below 30 years. These are the productive youth who we need to rely on in the coming years. It is not right. If we allow this culture to take root, let us not cheat ourselves that our children will be safe. Not at all! When our children leave our houses in the morning, you do not know where they go to. They walk all over this city and they can become victims anywhere. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is an issue that touches on all of us. It touches on our children and the children of the people that we represent. I remember there was a story I was told about Portugal. The current Secretary General of the UN Mr. Antonio Guterres used to be a Prime Minister in Portugal. Portugal used to have a problem similar to ours where the police used to have battles with youth in slums. Anytime the police were sent to those slums, the only way they used to deal with them was to kill those who were suspected to be involved in criminal activities. The then Prime Minister came up with a rehabilitation process. He said that instead of killing those youth they should arrest those who were suspected of being involved in crime. They set up rehabilitation centres for those who were involved in crime because they took drugs. These people were rehabilitated and then taken back to society; and that country changed. If you go to Lisbon now, you will not hear of cases of extra-judicial killings. Let us accept that some of these youth are involved in crimes because they lack employment and others are abusing drugs. The best way we can deal with these social problems is to see how best to rehabilitate these youth. Instead of saying, “shoot to kill”, let us see ways of arresting those who are abusing drugs. Let those who are taken to court serve their sentences and then we seek ways of rehabilitating them and taking them back to society. Madam Temporary Speaker, finally, I want to urge the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights to put IPOA on their toes. He has the powers to summon IPOA. Let them come to us and give us their scorecard of how many cases they have successfully investigated. How many prosecutions have taken place?"
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