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    "id": 473633,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/473633/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2644,
        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
        "slug": "john-muriithi-waiganjo"
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    "content": "This is important; just imagine from the PEV of 2007/2008, how many victims are unknown to date. For your information - this is the information is in the public domain - no prosecution was undertaken after around 600 people were killed and about 1000 people were displaced; no successful prosecution has been undertaken to date. That tells you that about 600 people who died are who were victims are unknown. It also tells you that 1000 others who were displaced, and who live today, are not anywhere in our registers or conscience. Even those who were displaced, apart from giving certain people Kshs400,000 to compensate for land that was worth millions of shillings--- As a country we must start looking at our victims of crime and at the offenders. That is why I find this Bill to be very important. Part IV of this Bill on victim services is very explicit. In fact, it emphasizes on information. I am longing for the day when we will look at Access to Information Bill and pass it. Due to lack of information; most of the victims do not know--- Even when an offender is released on bail, the victims do not know why he has been released. That is why you see people taking the law into their hands, or saying a person murdered another and now he is out. This is because they do not understand the provisions on bail; they do not know when somebody is put on probation, for instance. A victim must know that when you put somebody on probation, you ask that person to go work in a chief’s camp, and the chief’s camp is next to the victims home. What happens when that victim meets that offender in the street? People start saying that there is no justice in this country. This Bill has provisions on information. The victims must know, what the offenders are charged with; they must know when the offender is released on bail; they must know the bail terms; they must when---"
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