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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangamati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Wangamati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Bill and thank hon. (Ms) Odhiambo-Mabona for bringing it in the House. It is very important and it is timely for us to pass this Bill. One thing I have observed is the administration of some of those Bills we are putting before the House. For example, hon. Chanzu was talking about a case which was in Bungoma. I particularly, myself, when this happened, took up the matter and followed the case in Bungoma. I was quite happy because the police told me that they have arrested, at least, the person who did that. The whole idea is that the person who committed the killing of five people was also a victim. He had broken into that woman’s house and took her things. The woman went to the police and the police arrested that man and took him to court. But when the case was going on, the man told the woman before the magistrate and before the courts that if he was released, he would kill her. The magistrate sentenced him to two months in jail. After the two months, he was released. On the same day he was released, he went and killed the whole family of the same woman. What I am trying to say is that the victims in this country are also known by the administration. The police are, sometimes, not capable of defending or prosecuting those cases. At the same time - and I think this House can bear me witness - when you look at most of the cases, the courts do not have enough time to listen to them. In the case in Bungoma, the court did not give attention to this issue. The man was a crook and he had been doing all manner of crimes and the police knew it. The police having known that person, could not be able to advice the courts about it. I do not know how the law works for those people, but I think the administration of the law between the police and the court is giving room for those people to be free while they have committed a crime."
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