Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 107320,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/107320/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 316,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "As we do this, I recall an issue that was raised in a conversation with the Attorney-General; that we must also be able to weed out joyriders. Kenyans are very ingenious. Once you have a scheme like this, you also run the risk of having joyriders who will come with false information, convince everybody, and enjoy the protection and, perhaps, be taken out of the country, and end up being phony. So, the tribunal that has to look at appeals, especially where such joyriders have been locked out of the scheme, must be very careful to ensure that we do not have joyriders enjoying State largesse in the name of witness protection. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I had the privilege of representing the Robert Ouko family in the inquiry in Kisumu and I did, very carefully, follow the case thereafter. If there is one case that this country will one day have to re-open and look at, it is this one. Why on earth would, in a single case, more than 15 witnesses die one after the other? Why on earth, would every critical witness simply disappear and eventually die? There must be something! These are the kind of mysterious murders and mysterious criminal acts in this country that we will have, sometimes, to grapple with ourselves and re-open. When you are talking of truth, justice and reconciliation, it is about the capacity, the ability and the courage to face your past and acknowledge the wrongs you have done and be able to look to the future with greater confidence. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill is so critical that I would want to urge the House to support the Attorney-General. Something that is lacking in this Bill is this: If you go to Italy, the administration of justice and the threats that come to it, and the eventual loss of lives that follow, is not limited to witnesses. They have gone a step further. They even have a law that protects judges and magistrates who preside over cases involving dangerous criminals. When you are dealing with the “mafia” and the evolving very dangerous criminal gangs in this country – They are many and you know them - the Attorney-General should look for ways and means of not only protecting the witnesses, but also having a legal system that protects judicial officers who preside over cases relating to dangerous criminals. This is because, if those criminals are unable to reach and silence witnesses, they will reach and silence the judge. Judges and magistrates are permanently at risk from"
}