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    "id": 101761,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Saitoti",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 205,
        "legal_name": "George Muthengi Kinuthia Saitoti",
        "slug": "george-saitoti"
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    "content": "Bill, it sets out activities constituting organised criminal activities. In other words, which are the activities which are considered to form criminal activities? Clause 3 deals with organised criminal activities. There are quite a number of them. They are defined from a to f, and I think because this is an extremely important Bill, perhaps I would like to seek your indulgence if I could actually go through them so that it becomes very clear what they are. I am aware that in the course of the Bill, hon. Members will have gone through it but at the very outset, I think it is extremely important to actually state these activities right here. Clause 3 states as follows:- A person engages in organised criminal activity where the person - (a) is a member or professes to be a member of an organised criminal group; (b) knowingly advises, causes, encourages or recruits another person to become a member of a criminal group; (c) knowingly advises, causes, encourages or recruits another person to become a member of an organised criminal group; (d) being a member of an organised criminal group, knowingly directs or instructs any person to commit a serious crime; (e) threatens to commit or facilitate the commission of any act of violence with the assistance of an organised criminal group; We know very well that, that has been taking place quite a lot in the recent times because quite a number of our own citizens have actually been kidnapped and those who have kidnapped them have been asking for ransom. This has created a lot of problems in recent times. So, those who are committing those acts of kidnapping people will now have to understand that when this Bill becomes an Act, they will, therefore, be deemed to have committed organized criminal activity. They will be dealt with in accordance with this law once it is given consent."
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