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    "id": 473712,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 384,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
        "slug": "benjamin-langat"
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Victim Protection Bill. Let me congratulate hon. Millie Odhiambo for a job well done and for, at least, saving us the agony of coming to deal with this Bill the way we normally deal with the constitutional Bills, which come late in the day and we are normally forced to burn the midnight oil. She has done a very good job. I have seen that when her temperatures are okay, she does a good job. She has done us proud. Victims of crime suffer. In many cases, the procedure for dealing with them has been guess work, to say the least. There has been no procedure. We do not know who exactly should deal with them. We have seen efforts by the Red Cross, once in a while. We have also seen efforts by the police, but unless we have a clear procedure of handling those people, we end up losing people not because of the crime itself, but because of failure to manage the victims in good time in terms of access to medication. The other day in Lamu, if we had a good procedure, we could have saved a number of people. We had a situation where people became victims and there was another attack almost within 24 hours. If we had a procedure which is clearly provided for by the law, as it is being suggested here, we would have saved people. We would have managed the victims in good time and protected them against the subsequent attack. Therefore, this is a timely Bill. We must save victims from trauma. We must fund the body that will be created here. I have seen what hon. Odhiambo has provided in terms of funding and we need to give it more assured funding. The funding procedure which has been proposed here is not assured. It is like we are opening room for this body to borrow and look for donations. We need to have a way of ensuring that there is secure funding from the State. The people that we intend to protect are not foreigners. They are Kenyans and we cannot rely on donors to help our people. Therefore, at a relevant time, we will need to discuss and agree, so that the funding is assured for the body that is going to manage those affairs. 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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