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    "id": 487458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "and the reason I know he is speaking at length is that, should we pass this, I know many lawyers may challenge this because many of us have a mind-frame of the positivists where we believe that the law should be done the way we inherited it from the white man. What most people will tell you is this: With the Commonwealth system, we do not know that. But I am a natural. I come from the natural law school where I believe the law is made for man and not man for the law. If you are making the law for man, in most of my practice, I have been a lawyer for victims of crime. What happens sometimes is that when you go to a court as a lawyer for the victims, you sit down and you see the prosecutors messing up the case. I have been trained, I have legal expertise and I cannot do anything. I just sit and observe. We actually intervene and the hon. Attorney General allowed some limited leeway where they can now gazette lawyers as private prosecutors to deal with cases. What we are saying is this: It should not be given as a discretional lead onto the Attorney-General. You should allow us where a victim has the ability to hire a lawyer, their lawyer can also cross-examine, can also adduce evidence so that the prosecutor does not mess up the case. We have seen cases of young girls who have been raped. Then there is a prosecutor who does not bring the panties for evidence. They tell you that the house has been burnt. You end up traumatizing the victims when you know the evidence is there and because they have been compromised, they do not present it. So, it is good to give lawyers a chance where the prosecutor is not willing to do a good job to present. I think it is an excellent amendment and I support."
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