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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I told you, because these places have remained places of punishment rather than correction, we then have a situation whereby a prisoner who then comes out has not learnt anything because there was no time to train him on how to change, and this is why even some of the prisoners end up being caught up in the problem of rewraps because nobody has taught them that having been punished for this crime, they can be punished for a similar crime again. Some of them end up thinking that because they served three years, even if they make a mistake, they have already been punished, and they think they are free. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, because of this and many other reasons which we shall go into later, there is, therefore, urgent need for us to align the Prison’s Act and the Borstal Institution’s Act to the rich positions within Chapter Four of the Constitution of Kenya in its present form. This gives me an opportunity because I have one of Kenya’s biggest prisons in Shikusa. We, the people of Kakamega, are saying we cannot be the ones who are expected to host one of the highest numberof prisoners in Kenya. Kakamega as a county was not meant to host people who are unable to live with their societies from across the Republic. Therefore, we say each county government must build its own prison so that prisons across the country are shared. Where do we lose? Shikusa Prison has got tracts of thousands of acres of land where we have vast maize plantations. The produce of these plantations is partly what is used to feed the prisoners across the Republic. What is worse is that prison officers will die to serve as officers in Shikusa, the reason being that they allocate themselves hundreds of acres of land within the Shikusa plantations, where they plant free maize seeds, where labour is free from prisoners including the harvesting. The only thing that the prison waders do is to sell. Some of the richest prison officers in Kenya or may be in East Africa are the ones serving in Shikusa. We are saying that, let every county have its prison, we want to reduce the number of prisoners who live in Kakamega. We want to put to good use the tracts of thousands of acres of land in Shikusa. For example, we have decided as leadership of the county to move the Kakamega Approved Primary School from where it is, next to the Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), to Shikusa because the land is there. We want the University to take up this land for purposes of developing a medical teaching and training hospital. I want to thank former President Mwai Kibaki for giving an okay to this, and because members of the former Provincial Administration who are still in service and in higher offices in Nairobi are beneficiaries of the grabbed land from the Approved school, to Bukhungu Stadium, they have refused to give way, they have kept us in court and we are unable to receive the land that President Kibaki decreed through an executive order, that the University takes over the land. Before the Chief Whip got married, she was our own daughter. Daughter of my own daughter, I want to remind you in your high office and closeness to President Uhuru, tell him that that University should be named after Kibaki--- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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