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    "id": 415974,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/415974/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "Right now, we have members of that very august Society who ascribe and prescribe as pro bono lawyers, but all we see is that they go to represent murder suspects. I wonder why that cannot be expanded so as to include even representing robbery with violence suspects because the concept is the same. They should also include child support matter because the concept is the same. We want the LSK also to look closely and clearly at the ongoing in the Industrial Court, particularly for litigants who work in factories. We know that, for a long time now, factory workers work under very bad conditions. Usually, their matters hardly even get to the Industrial Court, leave alone any other fora that can address their rights. So, we want to have a society which will go out there and try to assist our people in Kenya. We are now under a new constitutional dispensation and the LSK must be first in time. One of the objects of the LSK as enshrined in this Bill is to harness and to promote constitutionalism. You cannot promote and harness constitutionalism if you become a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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