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"content": "Thank you hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Bill. I personally stand to support it. I know it is in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for due consideration. This Bill for once recognises that when you are deprived of liberty either due to arrest, detention or imprisonment, the only right that you should be denied is your freedom of movement. Other than that, your rights remain with you. This Bill is opportune. As a practising lawyer, I have had to go to so many institutions where we hold persons in remand or in prison. One day I travelled to Lang’ata Women’s Prison without notice as somebody who went to investigate. The people of this country may not know but when female remandees return to the prisons, as a matter of the search process they are required to strip completely naked. So, you reach an area where you have elderly women, young ladies and the middle aged all naked. The manner in which they are searched is so degrading to their human dignity and to the fact that they are women."
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