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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) R.K. Nyamai",
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        "legal_name": "Rachael Kaki Nyamai",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to speak to this important Bill. I would like to point out that I support this Bill highly because matters which are being handled in this Bill touch on my constituents. I would like to say that it is very important to know that things are not in order in Kenya as we are today; matters of security and if the House is not in order, we need to take action for those of us who have a voice so that we can speak on behalf of Kenyans who are out there who do not have a voice and those who are suffering. We need to take action today and today is a day which will go into history that Parliament heard the cry of the relatives of Kenyans who have been slain by terrorists. I would like to say that today this Bill is addressing the interception of communication in prisons. As we sit here, people who are already in our prisons are able to communicate with others who are out here. It means that if we do not take action, and if one has to get a court order or justify reasons as to why they are intercepting communication, then it means that we are not taking care of the Kenyans who are out there and all of us are being affected. Our intelligence officers, once they take note of crime, either people planning to implement crime or people who have already implemented crime, they do not have the tools that they can use. They do not have power. The only power that they have is to pass the information to police officers hoping that they will take action. So this Bill gives the opportunity to our intelligence officers to take action in incidences where they get to know that crime is being planned. Hon. Speaker, on matters of demonstration, I would like all of us to reflect on the time when this House and its environs became ungovernable; when all of us were referred to as “mpigs” within Parliament. So I believe members of this House and Kenyans who care about our own security and our dignity as Kenyans will be happy if people do not demonstrate all over the country. So it is important that we have a Bill here today which is going to designate places where people can hold demonstrations. We are aware that there is lack of coordination within our forces. We have a situation where the OCPD even if he realizes that an OCS has made a mistake or a junior officer within the forces, he does not have power to properly reprimand or even give proper punishment. So this Bill is going to give an opportunity for this happen. I would like to go to the issue of women being stripped. We watched with pain as Kenyans - I would not want to say as women but as Kenyans - our young girls who are looking up to us being stripped along our streets in areas where we think it is very safe especially the Nairobi streets. So if this Bill is going to ensure that people who are involved in stripping women are going to be seriously punished, then it is a Bill that I am very happy to support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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