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    "id": 1049894,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "I agree with Sen. (Dr.) Zani that it is now time that this kind of Statement triggered a thorough audit on the management and the character of the managers or people who set up these children‟s homes because some of them are actually convicted criminals where they come from. They arrive in Kenya looking like philanthropists, set up homes and end up doing the most wicked things to our children. Due to the weakness of our criminal justice system, many of them get away with it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to encourage the Government to sign mutual legal agreements with countries where persons who want to run these kinds of enterprises in Kenya come from, so that in the event that they flee - like the character in question here - they can be extradited back to Kenya. When somebody is tried and jailed in the USA, he is going to live in a three-star hotel in the name of a penitentiary, but if he was in Kenya, he would feel the weight of our criminal justice system and know that crime does not pay. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to urge that the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights of Sen. Omogeni carries out an audit on how these institutions are run, who runs them, their backgrounds, their character and their sponsors, so that we get to know what kind of people they are. We should also have a mechanism of checking how children get into these homes. Children from very destitute families take economic refuge in these homes and land into the traps of these criminal characters. I support the Statement and hope it will trigger a more important process that will save Kenyans from this kind of behaviour. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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