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    "id": 487363,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Chairlady. I would like to encourage hon. Irungu if he could adopt what the Chair is saying. If you look at the import of what he is suggesting by deleting “may” and putting “shall”, it means that every victim of crime – and victims of crime here include victims of hit and run of accidents, victims of rape and victims of all manner of crimes--- Every time you are a victim and the matter is in court, you must give a victim impact statement. That will actually slow down the process. We are saying that let the victim who wants to tell the court how the crime has impacted their lives do so. That is because sometimes courts do not understand until they listen to how, for instance, our dear colleague, hon. Dennitah Ghati, through the accident, has suddenly become disabled or the hon. Member for Kamukunji. If that person is given a chance to explain to court how the crime has impacted directly in his or her life, sometimes people may not understand. I think we should leave it to discretion."
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