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    "id": 185008,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/185008/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 191,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the House will remember that, immediately after the strike by the prison warders, I gave an undertaking that I would come back to this House with a report. I am in the final stages of preparing that report so that we can honour the word that I gave before this august House. Some of the issues that the hon. Member is raising will clearly be elaborated. In the meantime, I have had occasion to visit very many prisons and, indeed, I want to confirm what the hon. Member has just said. There is serious congestion in our prisons. I visited the Thika Prison and the number of the remandees is unacceptable. This is because whenever they went to Maragua for the normal weekly or fortnightly sessions with the magistrates to either take the plea or for the mention of their cases, in certain cases, the magistrates were unavailable. Therefore, congestion in our prisons is a matter that we are taking very seriously as a Ministry. Within the framework of the overall reforms that we propose to do in our prisons service, I am sure that this House will be satisfied with the steps that we will be taking. After all, we intend to come back to the House. 2574 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 8, 2008"
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