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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Saitoti",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
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        "legal_name": "George Muthengi Kinuthia Saitoti",
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    "content": "technology; the police have been able to trace the whereabouts of these organized kidnappers. A number of them have been nabbed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, even when they are arrested, again, the penalties are not stiff enough. With the passage of this Bill, it will deter these criminals from kidnapping innocent people because the penalty will be very stiff. It is absolutely important that we do that. There are also many other crimes that are coming up today which are fairly sophisticated because of the new technologies of the world. Once again, if you trace them, they are also organized crimes. Those are the ones this Bill is targeting. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I should not close my remarks without drawing the attention of Members of this hon. House that sometime back, a similar Bill was prepared by the Government. At that time, it was prepared by the Attorney-General and he had wished to have it discussed. When one looked at the whole issue, the Bill was actually tabled here and then committed to the relevant Departmental Committee. The Departmental Committee examined this particular Bill very carefully. It also held meetings with stakeholders and unfortunately, at that time, before the committee could come with its recommendations to this House, it coincided with the dissolution of Parliament. That was in 2007 and the Bill was, therefore, not deliberated on by this House. Since then, you can see that a lot of crimes of the nature we are discussing here have taken place. Had it, therefore, been enacted into law towards the end of 2007, a lot of these innocent people who have suffered and some killed would have been saved by now. It is for that reason that I strongly wish to recommend this Bill to this hon. House. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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