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    "id": 1150385,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to thank Hon. Purkose and Dr. Nyikal for supporting this Bill. As Dr. Nyikal puts it, those offences are colonial, and they go against the current Constitution. This is where you deny a person the fundamental right to movement, for example. This is what the police are doing. They have cartels for collecting money. They normally swing into action on Fridays and Saturdays. This amendment will go a long way to address the problem. When you are in town, you will find people doing their small businesses. There are those who pull their small mkokotenis. Police appear from nowhere and arrest them! If you try to tell them that mkokoteni is your business, they do not want to listen. When you land in the police station, it is either you were loitering or touting. People have accused me of bringing a law that legalises prostitution. I am not legalising prostitution. Prostitution can never be done by a single person; it has to be two people. There must be a woman and a man. When you arrest a woman and you charge her of doing those kinds of things... Even if you go to court, they will eventually collect bribes and other things. I do not know what they call them these days, especially on Fridays and Saturdays. I am saying this because one day, a lecturer of a university was arrested and taken to Central Police Station. You know, when you land in a police station they take all your items, including your phone. It was very unfortunate for a husband to see the wife on camera arrested for matters to do with prostitution. The husband went to court the following day to say that the wife does not do that kind of business. If this is amended, it will go a long way in addressing some of the small crimes that the police normally mischarge people with, particularly loitering and touting. These are some of the issues that they always place on our youths. I wish to reply Hon. Speaker."
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