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    "id": 541881,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. J.M. Nyaga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Muchiri Nyaga",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Bill. Mines are destructive and many Kenyans have been maimed and killed by mines. In the forests and mining areas of some countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to date, there are some areas which no one can access because of mines. Mines are destructive and it is high time the Government of Kenya came up with a law to curb proliferation of mines and punish those who could be behind the making of mines. If you do some good research into our military and the police, especially in the North Eastern region; there are many policemen and Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers who have been maimed by mines. Their vehicles are blown up . When you step on a mine, you can be blown up. It is important to note that mines have maimed and killed many Kenyans. Many families have been left suffering because of the same. Mines are like weapons of mass destruction, as my colleague has just alluded to. Most of those people who are fighting their government plant mines, so that the military who have got heavy equipment, cannot access them. Terrorists could also be manufacturing mines. Therefore, it is important for us to check on mines. There are products which usually make those mines and some of them are used in the agriculture sector, like some fertilisers. It is important to be very watchful and careful of some of the products which are coming into the country because once bad people access those materials, they make bombs, et cetera . In Mt. Kenya area, during the colonial times, there were some bombs or mines that were left in the forest and in some farms. A clear case was in Embu and Kirinyaga of late, where a very old mine was detected. Once any Kenyan is crippled by mines, it is important for the Government to compensate them. Children were sometimes found playing with mines, which were exposed by a road contractor undertaking road works. He was lucky that the tractor was not blown up. This Bill has come at the right time so that whoever is maimed or injured by mines is compensated fully. With those remarks, I beg to support this Bill."
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