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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development",
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to say two things. One, as we improve on the Witness Protection Act, we need to copy what some of the most successful jurisdictions do. I have in mind here the United States of America (USA). Hon. Attorney-General, you will never be able to prosecute successfully somebody charged with corruption in this country - I will give you the reason. It is because you make it both an offence for the giver and receiver. So, if you accept that you have been given, even if that person is denying, first of all, the courts deal with you because you have confessed. So, it can never work. You need to copy the American system where the prosecutor decides among the giver and receiver who is more prominent in society. If you decide that it is the receiver, because normally the receiver will be more prominent--- You do not prosecute the giver but the receiver, so that then the giver can give evidence against the receiver. But where you say it is both of them; whether you were given or you received, you have committed an offence, it will never work. So, you need to make that distinction and choice as to whom you want to go for. Normally, it is the receiver."
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