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    "id": 1341637,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "I had taken a Petition to the courts in 2007. I was at pains to make the court understand that the evidence that I had carried in a compact disk should be admissible. It would have changed the course of that matter before the judge. I would have proven my case that I had won an election. I had captured this very amazing incident that happened at the polling centre in a tape and produced it in court in a Digital Video Disc (DVD). The court did not admit it because it was limited in the definition of evidence that it could admit. Each Kenyan is a potential citizen journalist. One can capture evidence anywhere on the go. We must re-define some of these terms so that we are up to speed with technological advances. The Mover of the Bill, the Leader of the Majority Party, was very clear on what we need to do to fortify this amendment. It is so that this definition does not fall prey to people who manipulate photographs. The good thing about digital technology is that there is always a digital footprint. If you manipulate a photograph, it does not matter how good you are at photoshop, since there will be a digital footprint embedded in that manipulated image that will prove that it is either an organic and real image, or a manipulated image using any of the softwares available. I support the amendment of the Evidence Act Cap 80 to define the term “photograph” better. The amendment of the Judicta Act seeks to increase the number of Court of Appeal judges. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you know the problems in your constituency and the clamour for justice. Kenyans, being as litigious as they are, have many cases that are stuck in our courts. They are not only stuck there because of inefficiency or human error, but also because of the 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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