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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I want, first and foremost, to register my support for the amendment. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not have kind words for the Attorney- General for bringing this amendment. In the first place the Act was passed way back in 2006. It has taken him five years to recognise that the initial Act was not operational or had operational challenges. The main reason for this is that the importance of witness protection in the administration of justice in a country is obviously a very critical issue. Our country has witnessed, over the years, continuous degeneration of the rule of law, quality of justice and these are some of the key components which have driven that degeneration. If the pace at which we have treated this Witness Protection Act is anything to go by, it is very unfortunate. It would appear that the State has not actually been serious about witness protection. We know for sure that way back in the colonial period, when the State had a"
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