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    "id": 34021,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/34021/?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. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank my learned sister for that question. I want to assure the House that we are working very hard. We are even looking at possibilities of using private/public sector partnership in order to, once and for all, deal with this very shameful problem of prisons officers living under conditions that are clearly not acceptable. In the recent past, I have had occasion to go and actually open some of these newly constructed facilities, some put up under Rapid Results Initiative. Even as late as this morning, we were in consultations with the Housing Finance Company of Kenya, together with the Treasury, in trying to find out whether we can actually use a Public/Private Partnership (PPP) approach, so that we can do massive construction of prisons houses. I think the hon. Members should also thank the Ministry because when we took over, Ms. Karua may not know, but some of these officers like those in the Industrial Area Prison were actually using buckets as toilets. It used to be the case that the Prisons Department was actually the milk cow in the years gone by. It used to be assumed that nobody cares about the prisoners and nobody wants to investigate. However, I want to tell this House that the reform programme being carried out by the Ministry with specific reference to the Prisons Department is a serious reform programme and we will make sure that our officers live under conditions that are humane."
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