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    "id": 206260,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/206260/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the President",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Attorney-General for moving this very important Bill. I thank him for giving me the privilege of seconding it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the Bill that is going to give our law enforcement officers and our entire justice system teeth with which to bite. We have laws that have been dealing with crime generally, but we do not have specific laws that deal with this new phenomenon, not just in Kenya, but actually in the entire world. I am talking about organized crime. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, because of technology and sophistication, crime has, today, become a very organised business. Therefore, we need a very sophisticated law that can, adequately, deal with that challenge. This is the law. Just like the Attorney-General has said, in enacting this law, we are also implementing our obligations under the United Nations. That is because we are party to various international instruments such as the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime, the so-called Palermo Convention of 2000. That convention requires us to come up with domestic laws that, not only deal with organised crime operating within our country, but also trans-border organised crime."
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