{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=147994","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=147992","results":[{"id":1498122,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498122/?format=json","text_counter":282,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Marakwet East, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kangongo Bowen","speaker":null,"content":"The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1498123,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498123/?format=json","text_counter":283,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Marakwet East, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kangongo Bowen","speaker":null,"content":"go to the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. A few weeks ago, an individual who is not Kenyan acquired a Kenyan identity card through dubious means and travelled all the way from Ethiopia to Eastleigh, where he killed four women. That is what we were told. The individual has since been identified as an Ethiopian. How he acquired Kenyan citizenship is questionable. Apart from that one, if you go to the pastoral areas, where some of us come from, the insecurity in those areas is at an alarming state. Even as we address the issue of abductions in the country, we need to look at the general issues of security in the country."},{"id":1498124,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498124/?format=json","text_counter":284,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":" On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker."},{"id":1498125,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498125/?format=json","text_counter":285,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"Hon. Temporary Speaker","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" Yes, Leader of the Majority Party, what is your point of order?"},{"id":1498126,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498126/?format=json","text_counter":286,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Speaker, this was a general statement, but I am hearing a lot of reference to abductions. Even the Member on the Floor, the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Blue Economy and Irrigation, is speaking about abductions. However, the example he has given, of the person he has spoken about, is the work of criminal elements. Those are issues I thought the Member and all of us should – even as we express our concern on the rate of crime in the country – be careful not to use the Floor of this House to admonish our security agencies and not recognize the good work they have done. For instance, it took very few days from the day the Eastleigh killings happened, and the young lady was unfortunately killed in Kilimani, to when the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) apprehended the suspect and for the Member on the Floor to get the information."},{"id":1498127,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498127/?format=json","text_counter":287,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"It is, therefore, not fair to describe all those things as abductions. I know it is politically expedient and very good for the public gallery to be speaking about abductions. There is a trend in this country today where even individuals who are legitimately arrested by police, booked into known police station cells and arraigned in courts of law are being described as victims of abductions. We should probably define what ‘abduction’ is. We had a case the other day of somebody’s wife in Nairobi who was also ‘married’ to another man in Narok. The husband in Nairobi reported that the wife had been abducted. I do not know whether that was an abduction or a case of people ‘stealing’ other people's wives. If tomorrow Hon. Bowen moves to Marakwet East with my wife, will I report my wife as having been abducted or do I say that I have been unable to do certain things that Hon. Bowen has managed to do? I am only saying this to emphasize on the need for us to be careful as leaders because we have a national platform. We must be cautious about the adjectives we use to describe incidences. When a murderer murders people, that is a murderer. When someone is abducted by criminals and the police apprehend the criminals, let us also have the decency of congratulating the police. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the head of DCI, Mr Amin, and his team of officers for moving with speed to apprehend criminals. When the Kware killings happened, it took the DCI less than a week to apprehend the main suspect. However, it took some wayward officers within the National Police Service a very short time to allow that suspect to escape from lawful custody. Those are the issues I would expect us, as leaders, to address. Let us commend our officers when they do a good job. We should encourage them to do better in terms of apprehending suspects and avoid the temptation of branding every criminal activity as an abduction. I know that there are also elements amongst us who want to make all those things look like they are abductions by the police. I appreciate what Hon. Millie Odhiambo has said ― that there are even persons who just disappeared and who were subsequently found. There are those who were arrested but who said they were abducted. Criminals must be arrested – they will, indeed, be arrested – and arraigned in courts of law in accordance with our Constitution."},{"id":1498128,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498128/?format=json","text_counter":288,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1498129,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498129/?format=json","text_counter":289,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to encourage Members that, since this was just a general statement; even as we engage in such discussion, let us be cautious. Let us not use such opportunity to play to the gallery by speaking to what we think is politically expedient to excite people out there. Let us be responsible as leaders. Thank you."},{"id":1498130,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498130/?format=json","text_counter":290,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Omboko Milemba","speaker_title":"Hon. Temporary Speaker","speaker":{"id":13328,"legal_name":"Jeremiah Omboko Milemba","slug":"jeremiah-omboko-milemba"},"content":" Very well said, Leader of the Majority Party. Hon. Bowen, you will take just one minute. Hon. Members, I will give chance to one Member on my right and another Member on my left and then we will proceed to other business because this is not a substantive Motion."},{"id":1498131,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498131/?format=json","text_counter":291,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Marakwet East, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kangongo Bowen","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to be clear that even as our security officers address issues of abductions in the country, issues of insecurity and banditry must be addressed equally. How come it took the DCI less than two days to apprehend the Ethiopian guy who killed four women? Why have the security agencies not arrested the insecurity situation in the Kerio Valley? There are no criminals or bandits who have been arraigned in court. Why is the Government not addressing the banditry issue the same way it is addressing issues of abductions?"}]}