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    "id": 1034561,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1034561/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Yes, Hon. Speaker. Most of my colleagues are potential inmates. When we used to run around and “eat” teargas, they used to laugh at us. The other day, when a small teargas canister was thrown in Murang’a, I saw everybody running away. I wish they could have brought that canister to Busia. We would have shown them how to handle teargas. It is important that we move away from the mentality that prisoners are bad people. People go to prison for various reasons. Staying idle the whole day from Monday to Friday can be torture to a human being. That is why I support that Petition. The practice that has been there since my predecessor, Hon. Moody Awori, introduced reforms in the prison services should continue so that, by the time the person leaves prison, he or she has been corrected. He or she is somebody who can fit into the society. I remember that many years ago, they used to be paid some money such that when they would come out, they could start somewhere. That practice should continue. I, therefore, support the first Petition. On the second Petition, land remains a very emotive issue in this country. Many of us believed that the changes we made to the land sector would have resolved some of those issues. As they always say, you can change the forest but the monkeys remain the same. Hon. Kimunya, having been a Minister for Lands, should assist in trying to solve the issues in the land sector now that he serves as the Leader of the Majority Party. It does not have to be business as usual."
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