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"content": "I want to echo the comments by hon. Members that this legislation opens a new chapter in the way we dispense justice in our prisons. I want to especially recognise the fact that, for the first time, the issue of a prisoner being pardoned will be structured. If we structure it in the way it has been done in this Bill, it will mean that we are more unlikely to be faced with situations like what we find ourselves in, where upon being released, convicts cause havoc in villages. They go home and hack to death relatives of people they thought caused their arrests and so on, because their case was not very well thought out. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I support the Bill, I would also like to encourage the Minister to think hard and ensure that after we have pardoned people, we have a strict post-pardon follow up programme, so that such people are not just released and forgotten. Some of the bad habits in these people can actually be repeated. I say this because, as a doctor of medicine, I know that these things can happen. I would like to comment on three things in the actual Bill. Clause 6(d) says that a person is qualified for appointment as a member under this section, if that person has knowledge in law, psychiatry, et cetera . I just want to make a small correction. Under paragraph (ii), you are talking about psychiatry and under paragraph (v), you are talking about medicine. You do not have to put there “psychiatry” once you put medicine because psychiatry is a branch of medicine. Mr. Minister, I just want to exercise your mind. Maybe, now that you have space to add to that list one more specialist, having dropped one specialist, can you consider the possibility of also including on this list a former convict who has successfully benefited from presidential clemency? This could be somebody who really knows what it means, and he could be very useful. The second comment is in terms of these general principles of appointing members. They are saying:-"
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