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    "id": 473639,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill and also congratulate hon. (Ms) Odhiambo-Mabona for bringing it to Parliament. As a practising advocate I have seen things happen in courts. The legal system we have in a lot of times recognizes a misadventure. Under the Criminal Procedure Code and the Penal Code, if you are killed by the police by accident it becomes a misadventure and after that your family is not compensated. In cases like the recent matter in my constituency where when gangsters were being chased away by the police they killed a young person. It turned out that even the Government or anybody else was not ready to bury him and there was anexpense. So, the expense was borne by the Member of Parliament. It is in such cases now that we seek to legislate in and make sure that victims of crime are taken care of. As it has been argued before by other Members of this House, victims of crime include minors and children in times of war, civil disobedience and disorder like the last election violence; victims also result from just normal crimes in the streets, and also from what is currently happening currently in the coastal region of this country; almost on a daily basis we have victims of crime, some of whom will never be compensated. The idea of setting up a board which we will be able to look at a cases and set up a fund which will be able to take care of people who will have been victims of crime is very good and most welcome. We say that this law be supported; I am supporting that we pass it because the country needs it like yesterday. I will give you another example where a person is attacked at their home by criminals and killed. Then nobody is ever apprehended. In this particular case criminals are involved and there is no one to compensate the victim; even the Government cannot compensate him. In instances where police by misadventure, when cracking down on crime kill people or criminals, or actual suspects, because of not going through a trial system, then you cannot establish whether the person was a criminal or not. Many times the families of those victims are left in dire straits, and without money or people to take care of them. It is good that this issue has been brought up, so that we can look at it again. It can be reassessed by an organization established by law, and such people can be 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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