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    "id": 101834,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/101834/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill has come at the right time because Kenya must be part of the global world. We must be very competitive. If you look at the countries we are competing with like South Africa, you will find that it enacted this law in 1998. The law was specifically meant to fight organized crime, money-laundering and make sure that all tainted assets are traced in South Africa. I would like to touch on the issues that I see lacking in this Bill. I call them the strategies. What are the strategies for combating organized crime if this Bill has to serve this country and the bigger East African Economy? I feel that we need to strengthen the collection and analysis of data on organized crime. We must not only specify ourselves to Kenya but even to our neighbours. If this Bill has to see the light of the day and we see its benefits, then we must prevent the penetration of organized crime in both the public and the legitimized private sector. Organized crimes are in the private sector, public sector, in the economy and in the political sphere. I believe that if we had very good legislation on organized crime, what happened on Sunday at Uhuru Park could not have happened. I feel that in order for this Bill to be workable we must strengthen the prevention of organized crime and create a partnership between the country’s criminal justice system and the civil society or the people in general. There must be harmonization. The criminal justice system based on the organized crime Bill must be in harmony with the other aspects of the society. We must always review and improve legislation. We might pass this Bill today and come back here tomorrow to review it. We must have controlled regulatory policies for this Bill to be implemented both nationally and regionally. This Bill has given us a clearly defined mechanism to trace, freeze and confiscate all proceeds of crime. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, we must develop a systematic, regional and global co-operation with other countries. This Bill will not serve us if it will for Kenyans. This Bill must deter criminal gangs in Uganda, Tanzania, the pirates in Somalia and other countries which we are neighbouring. It should not just be a Bill which will only take care of Mungiki and Kamjesh . It should be a law that will deter the gang from Italy, Colombia, pirates in Somalia and drug dealers in Afghanistan from penetrating our market. This Bill is among the many Bills that the Tenth Parliament has passed and will pass that will put Kenya in a more competitive global business, secure, peaceful and stable."
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