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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Let me start by thanking the Committee for the work it has done. Chairperson, I think you are a special Chair of the Committee. We really appreciate you for the work that you have done. What has come out is a much broader system issue that we seem to be looking at. If you look at the recommendations that you have made, which I support in total, then we have to look at the whole system. Look at the police offices and the infrastructure, including the corridors which on. Rozaah Buyu was talking about. When people come and sit there waiting, they are not only a danger to the police, but a danger to themselves and a point of transmission of the disease. Some will not even go into the police cells, but they will walk there and go back. They are a danger to the public as well. You go to a police officer’s office and he is surrounded by people. Some of them will not even go to the cell, but they are all there. So, that infrastructure needs to be looked into. Hon. Temporary Speaker, then there are the police cells. People come and they are put into those cells. They are a danger to all of them. Some will not even go to courts. Some will be released immediately to go away but if while they are there, they have contracted the virus, they are likely to spread it to the next person they meet. So, that is a system in itself. Even the police officers who look after them while they are there and interact with them, that is another system that the police are in that we have to look into. The police then transport the accused persons to courts and they are with them in those vehicles. Sometimes, they move picking them from one station to the other. Those people are transported together and then they go to the courts. As they are put there, sometimes in the courts, we have cells. But in those benches, there are lawyers and all kinds of people interacting with them. Again, we have a focus of transmission. Even that, we have to look into. Amongst all this, the police are still the most exposed, but they are also an agency for spreading the whole of this. Then, there is the Police Coroner Services. I am not talking about Covid-19 now. I am talking of the examination that the police have to do sometimes on people who are assaulted. I think we even have doctors working in those situations where they are examining people who are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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