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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will also let you know that before I came to this House, I was a Provincial Administrator and so, I have visited many of those prisons. I am just saying that this is a very important law to make sure that an institution holding an arrested person shall maintain a register which shall be used by law enforcement officers to record personal details, physical condition of the person and the reason for arrest. Sometimes, a person is arrested and when you ask the police in the registry why the person has been arrested, they cannot even tell you why. I think this will go a long way to make sure that a person who has been arrested is known. We should also know the number and their physical condition. Sometimes, prisoners die in jail. You go to a prison to see a jailed person and you are told that he or she has died or is missing. The right to privacy, set out in Article 31 of the Constitution, may be limited. I have been very lucky to go around this country. I visited Maralal where our first President was incarcerated. In the visitor’s book, one of the guests wrote:- “This is where our fourth President was conceived.” It is very important to note that during colonialism, the colonial government used to give people privacy. This is very important because we are going back to what the colonialists used to do. They were better. They knew those things. However, for us Africans, if you are jailed for ten or 20 years, your wife cannot be allowed to visit you. So, this law will go a long way in making sure that those who are jailed will be given time to be visited by their families. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you look at Clause 5(2), it says:- “Any person who subjects a person deprived of liberty to cruel--”"
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