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    "id": 101794,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/101794/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Public Health and Sanitation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
        "slug": "beth-mugo"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should look into these programmes called entertainment and what it is doing to our people. If need be, we should introduced censorship again. Censorship of the media content was there, especially when the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) was the only channel. But when many stations came up, it is horrifying to watch what goes on there. People, can urge, yes, it is in the internet. But the people who are committing this crime are not watching this through the internet. They do not even have those facilities. As we enact this law, we must look at the root cause of these ills in our society. I do not think we have lack of enough laws to bring law and order in this country. I think the problem lies in implementation. This law will be there, yes, but who will implement it? Two months ago, in April, that is when this boy was kidnapped. This boy comes from Dagoretti. The parents gave to the police the telephone numbers of the person who was calling them for ransom. It took two months for the police to trace these people. It is said that sometimes you have to bribe or give kitu kidogo for your case to be followed. These people do not have kitu kidogo to give to anyone to follow these cases. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I request the Minister in charge of Provincial Administration and Internal Security that even as he brings this law, he puts measures that will make the implementers of the law, that is the police officers accountable. When they get vital information they should not take, for example, two months before they nab somebody like Mr. Onyancha who was leaving bodies everywhere. He did not even bother to conceal the murders, and yet they were never discovered. To me, it is not lack of enough laws rather than lack of implementation. Four or three women were raped and murdered in the same place and yet the people who committed the crime have not been arrested. I support this Bill, but I also want to see some seriousness and strictness in the implementation process. We should have a special unit in the Bill that deals with these terrible crimes. These officers should be trained in this. The organized groups such as Mungiki and Baghdad Boys have godfathers. It is the big people who organise these crimes and not the small boys who look for handouts. Will we first nab the organizers before we get to the young men and women who get into these problems? Most of those godfathers and mothers are really politicians or big businesspeople. As we make this law, let us think whether we are serious or it is just making another law. Again, we hear that some of those who are recruited to the organized crimes are forced into it. Some are young school children who should be rescued. If they refuse to join the groups, they are killed or threatened. Even as we make this law, first and foremost, we must determine whether we are providing enough protection to the young people who are forced to join these organizations. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support this Bill very strongly, I want to stress that it is the implementation that is lacking. There is also lack of seriousness. We should find out whether we need to retrain our police and judges so that when they pass sentences--- We should also eliminate corruption in these cases. I know what I am talking about and I feel very pained. This is because the father of this young boy tried very hard. I was even involved in calling the CID, the DC and the PC to get this case sorted out."
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