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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I appreciate this opportunity. It is not very often that Parliament gets an opportunity to work on an omnibus Bill. This happens to be one of those miscellaneous Bills that come loaded with quite a number of amendments. Being an omnibus Bill, I will only concern myself with a few of them. At the outset, I want to say that I support. If I will have any amendments, I will present them during the Committee of the whole House. One of the reasons I am supporting this omnibus Bill is that it seeks to delete the expressions contained in Section 146 of the Penal Code (Cap 63). It seeks to remove some of the provisions that seem discriminatory to people with mental conditions. When we talk about the issue of mental health, for most of us, what rings in our heads is the Mathare Mental Hospital situation. I would like to put it very clearly that there are too many people walking around this town who are living with mental conditions. This city is replete with people who are managing mental conditions, some extreme and others mild. Even in this House, I am not embarrassed to say that we have Members managing mental conditions like bipolar. It is a mental situation. There are people trying to manage different levels of schizophrenia and so on. Even depression is a mental condition. The Constitution is very clear about discrimination: that no citizen shall be discriminated on account of very many things, including their mental condition. For this reason, I support. There is an effort in this omnibus Bill to amend the Evidence Act (Cap 80). This is seeking to expand the definition of the term ‘photograph’. We are living in the digital age. In fact, we are post the digital age. We are now in the fourth Industrial Revolution where we are talking about the whole movement towards artificial intelligence, robotics, internet and all those other things that accrue from there. Therefore, our courts cannot be restrained, as they are now, when seeking to admit evidence, say, in the situation of defining a photograph."
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