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    "id": 1092653,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "We will all defend the right of an accused person to be brought before a court of law within 24 hours. However, we also need to figure out what happens in the process. The petitioner is arguing that very many people who commit offences and are out on bail continue committing offences because of the duration of time that it takes for a matter to be concluded. Once a matter is dismissed in a lower court, there is an appeal process and that process goes all the way to the Supreme Court. Let us look at the issue that the petitioner is raising. Let us put ourselves in his shoes. As an investigator, he is finding it difficult to carry out his tasks. I hope that the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights will take time to look at the Petition. They should get copies of the Petition and look at the legislation that he wants to be amended. As Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. said, a Petition should be disqualified based on what the Petitioner is seeking. One cannot seek to amend the Constitution without a referendum. A person seeking to amend the Constitution should collect a million signatures the same way the proponents of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and Punguza Mzigo did. On this Petition, I request that we listen to the investigator. We should put ourselves in the shoes of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and listen to the challenges that they go through. Some of the challenges that the DCI face are brought about by us, the politicians, depending on which side of political divide we are in. If you are in the Government, you make it very difficult for an accused person. We politicians are also arrested and detained. They work hard to arrest us on a Friday. We need to address some of those issues. This Petition gives us an opportunity to address those issues. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I hope that we will have justice and not condemn every petition that is brought before this House. I thank you."
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