Paul Kimani Wamatangi

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• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: As I speak, yesterday and the day before, in Ruiru, Kiambu County, there was a demonstration because we have one of our young men who was a boda boda rider who is missing. The practice has been most of the time that when somebody goes missing, the next time there will be a message saying: “Go and look for that person somewhere in a mortuary.” I have firsthand experience in this. You will be instructed to go and look around in hospitals if you are the parent. If you do not find them in a hospital, you will go back ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether Members of this House followed a serialization that was in The Daily Nation the other day. A retired police officer was telling a story that happened in his presence. He had accompanied two officers of the now defunct Flying Squad. The officers were pursuing robbers without having gone through proper judicial procedure. In that serialization, those robbers were captured somewhere between the border of Kenya and Tanzania. The writer, to his amazement, was telling about the methods that were being used to extract information from these young men. One police officer ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: I am saying this because a friend of mine the other day lost his son. When he disappeared some while back, he sought my assistance. We went round and looked all over. It is only after about two weeks when he was asked to go and find his son who was The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: said to have been last seen in the same place I have mentioned in Ruiru, near a police station. We found the son at the City Mortuary with bullet wounds. What is most amazing is that there will be no explanation wherever you go. You go to this police station or the other, and nobody knows what happened to the person. At the end of the day, your son or brother is dead by being shot. Your work is to go and collect the body, bury it and ask no questions. That is something we cannot condone anymore. I do ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: For how long will this go on? What is the use of this Constitution if in its most basic it cannot be obeyed? What is most troubling is that, and I say this with tremendous respect to our security forces especially to the police---- I know very good police officers who have reformed since the advent of our Kenya Constitution, 2010. We know that there are particular IGs of police who have occupied that office since then who have taken seriously to reform. We know that the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has done the best they could. However, there ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think this House, as proposed by the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, must also take a position. When families are pursuing justice after losing their people, the voice of legislators must be heard. When we leave a poor man in a village to follow the mighty force of the police and there is determined effort to block any evidence, this continues to be a cycle. Can this House be heard? Can lawyers in this House and the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights itself be heard? ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: services. They have given their services freely to families and victims who have suffered greatly in the hands of unrepentant officers, who have been otherwise entrusted by our law, armed by the taxpayers’ money and by the same victims that they murder; they should protect and give us security. This is a very painful subject to discuss, especially coming from Kiambu County, where several of our young people have been victims. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we had the purge on the group that was christened Mungiki in Kiambu, yes, that group was a menace to the community around Nairobi ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: their word, they would disappear that evening, never to be seen again. Mothers went crying all over to police stations saying, “please, please, please, do not---” We have to say no to this at the end of the day. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I congratulate the Committee; let that position be taken. I understand that there is a similar cry all over the country. Let justice prevail because we have a new Constitution and a legal system. We cannot have a legal system without a justice system; the two must go hand in hand. Thank you, Mr. Temporary, Speaker, Sir. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have a lot of respect for the Senator for Bungoma County. I was in concurrence with all the things that he was saying. However, he knows that I am not a blind man. At least, my record is clear that I did not come here as a disabled person representing the disabled and neither have I shown any signs that I could be losing my sight since I came here. Is he in order to describe my conduct or the Motions that I have tabled as those that point to a blind man’s action by ... view