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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it looks as if he read my mind since I was going to say exactly what he has said. Mr. Speaker, Sir, actually, in the last few months I have seen some disconnect in the operations of the Government in this country. There is a disconnect between Parliament and the Executive and between the Executive and the Judiciary and especially between the Attorney- General and the Judiciary. A suspected criminal commits an offence as serious as rape and he is taken to court and by some bizarre way, that person is released by the court. You cannot believe it. You cannot believe whether the people serving in the judicial system live in this country or somewhere in the heavens. You can see the torment and stress that is visited upon our womenfolk and small children. Today, you see a person who has misappropriated millions of shillings from the public coffers or even from other private people is sentenced for two years and yet somebody who steals a chicken is sentenced for between seven and 14 years. There is a disconnect somewhere! Maybe this Parliament, the Attorney-General or the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs should bring a law here so that we have minimum sentences for these types of crimes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, just imagine I saw the other day somebody who had misappropriated funds in excess of Kshs9 million from some department and he was imprisoned for six months. On the same day somewhere, I think in Kakamega, somebody who stole one chicken from a home was imprisoned for 14 years. What justice is this? There is a disconnect somewhere which we must address and we can address it as Parliament, by either bringing up that law or reducing the amount of money we are appropriating for the Judiciary. We cannot fight crime or corruption, for example, unless we pass deterrent sentences for these types of crimes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we appropriate these funds for various Ministries, I hope the Minister for Finance has now learnt over a period of almost 12 months to work with this Parliament by consulting us. We are the people's representatives."
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