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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Part V also specifies the condition of the prison. If you transfer this prisoner from China and you bring him to Kamiti Prison and then you subject him to a harsher punishment then you will have contravened this law. So, you are supposed to maintain the same standards. If the prisoner, for example, is a hardcore prisoner then he will maintain the same standards in our prisons here. More importantly, if that prisoner is transferred, there is no recourse for appeal. One cannot appeal to the Kenyan courts for one to be released. So, if one has been jailed for life imprisonment, the only thing that this law gives one is that one will now serve one’s life imprisonment closer home and vice versa for the foreigners serving sentence in our prisons. Part VI of this Bill deals with miscellaneous provisions. It talks about how to recover the expenses incurred in the transfer of that prisoner. How do the two agencies share information on the prisoner being transferred? I hope this law will be amended so that if at all there are Kenyans who are serving imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay then they should also be accorded this chance. I will study the USA Patriots Act to understand that if there are any Kenyans serving imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay then they should be given an opportunity to serve the remainder of their sentence in Kamiti, Manyani, Kodiaga in Kisumu, and the small prison in Garissa for petty offenders. We rarely have serious guys in Garissa. This Part also provides for the re-arrest of a transferred prisoner. If the prisoner who has been transferred to Kenya escapes, then Part VI provides the procedure on how to re-arrest him. So, this is a small Bill, but it is very important. I remember that during the December vacation, an elderly couple accosted me at Nakumatt Junction. This Bill has been with us since early 2014. They told me:- “Honourable Leader of the Majority Party please, talk to your colleagues and the Speaker. We have our kids and they are languishing in foreign jails. Enact that law because you have the powers to do that. We need our children to serve their sentence in Kenya.” So, this is a serious social problem and this law will help the citizens of our country. I beg to move and ask Hon. Waiganjo to second this Bill. I hope that we will conclude it at the end of the day and then next week, we bring it to the House for Third Reading. I also hope that the President will assent to it before the end of June."
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