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    "id": 1105450,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Most Hon. Members have spoken to the issue of the judicial process and how decrees are either honoured or not. When a case is against the Government, it takes long. Very importantly, my colleague, Hon. Kigano, spoke about review of the laws, which you also alluded to. Indeed, it is the appropriate way to go. We can then tell how to handle such cases in order to reduce the suffering. If the Government was to compensate without any law relating to the same, how would we quantify the quantum for each case in this matter? People are of different ages, professions and standings! So, that needs to be addressed by way of review of the law. My Committee and I are available and so is Hon. Muturi Kigano, Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. We can put our heads together with the entire House. On the issue of IPOA, I have not been in this Committee for too long but I know that before the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) gave instructions for the arrest of those officers, the Chairperson of IPOA shared their report with the Committee. In that report, they recommended that the six officers who were finally prosecuted, should be prosecuted. That was way before the DPP acted. What I am also headed to address is the issue of budgeting. I saw this when we were doing the first Budget when I got into this Committee. They cried a lot about their ability to do their work because of very limited budgeting. During the sector working group, I told them that they also need to stamp their feet so that there is a budget line which is established for some of those activities they were saying they have no budget for. Because the House also addresses the issue of the budget, we can enhance the same when it comes here, so that they are able to work in the manner that they are. In my assessment, they did their work appropriately like in the Mombasa incident. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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