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    "id": 975183,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I think the Chairperson for the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights is not gender sensitive. What a man can do, a lady can even do better. I laud that initiative by the Chairperson. I hope you can summon all the constitutional bodies that are supposed to ensure that there is accountability from our police force. As we look at legal reforms, let us put it in the law that any police officer who is convicted of having been involved in extrajudicial killings should personally compensate the families. These police officers know that when you go to court, you sue the Attorney-General, and if there is any judgement that is passed in our courts of law, they will never be personally liable. Madam Temporary Speaker, let us make it punitive. If you are taken to court, charged and convicted, then we will ensure that you and your family are the ones who will compensate the family that becomes victim, so that we have deterrence. Otherwise, they know that the Attorney-General will look for taxpayers’ money and they are left to serve their sentence and walk out free. Finally, let us also pick the best international practices. In most countries, people are moving away from the notion that those who are found guilty of offences must face the death penalty. Even where people are taken to court, tried and convicted, the death penalty is not an answer. In most countries, the death sentence has been abolished. The police cannot have any excuse of saying that the best way to deal with suspects – because they are not criminals but suspects– is to pull a trigger on them. Let us have a culture where anybody suspected of being involved in any criminal activities is arrested, taken to court and given a chance to be tried. Only those that are found guilty by our courts of law should face sanctions. With those few remarks, I fully support."
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