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    "id": 555438,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555438/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Transfer of Prisoners Bill (National Assembly Bill No.25 of 2014) be now read a Second Time. This is a very important Bill. I want to make a confession that Kenyans across all shades of life accost me a number of times telling me that, as the National Assembly, we must enact this law because our children are languishing in foreign prisons. As we go into the Second Reading, let us debate and finish this Bill by the end of next week so that the President can assent it into law so that the parents and citizens can be helped. The main objective of this Bill is to facilitate the transfer of prisoners who are citizens of Kenya but are serving sentences of imprisonment in foreign countries and where an agreement for transfer ceased between Kenya and the other foreign countries. Such systems, legislations or pieces of law exist and have been established in many countries for the repatriation of their citizens who are imprisoned in other countries. This is not something new. It is something which is practiced globally. Such schemes are essentially for medical and humanitarian grounds. It is not a secret that many Kenyans have continued to be arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in foreign countries. There are Kenyans who are languishing in jails in China, Western capitals, America, Africa and within the East African region. This Bill, if enacted, will provide a legal system through which such persons may be transferred to serve their sentences or the remaining part of their sentences in Kenya where they can be attended to by their relatives, get better treatment, eat Kenyan food, wear Kenyan clothes and get spiritual nourishment from Kenyan bishops and sheikhs."
}