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    "id": 555492,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/555492/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2065,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "However, we have the other side - particularly the terrorists. The terrorists are there. We have hardcore criminals who are out there. They will be very happy to come to our country because they know once they are here; they can always buy their freedom. We hope the Attorney-General and whoever is going to be involved will be looking at each case on its own merit, rather than having people coming here and yet, they are hardcore criminals. Of course, we know the level of corruption in this country. I know for sure that people coming from America, Africa or wherever it is can come here and buy their freedom. We hope that the nuts will be tightened so that we do not have that kind of thing. The other thing - and I am not sure of because I am not a lawyer - is whether some of those jailed people are rightly sentenced. I hope that we have got compatible laws here that can deal with somebody who has been sentenced to death or life imprisonment, and who comes here to serve the sentence. We hope that corruption in this country is not going to allow people who have been sentenced elsewhere to here. They might come here and buy their freedom. It is possible here because we know the levels of corruption. Last but not least, I know of a case where a crook has been sentenced in America because of presenting wrong papers. I do not know what will happen when he gets here. He said he had actually finished training as a pilot there. Now he has been caught up there. When he comes here, I do not know what will happen to him. All I am saying is that some people out there would rather serve their sentences elsewhere than come here. That is because the cells and prisons are in a very bad state. They are so bad that one would prefer to die elsewhere than come to die in a place like Kamiti Maximum Prison. I have not been there but I am told the conditions are bad and horrible. Therefore, some of the prisoners would rather serve their life sentences elsewhere because they are treated humanely. They will not agree to come to a place where you sleep on the floor, you do not have something to cover your head and you are given meals that are not even salted. The conditions there are very bad. As much as we are going to have this Bill - which I want to be fast-tracked - I think some prisoners who are jailed elsewhere would rather stay where they are than come over here. That is because the conditions in our prisons here are in a very bad state. I support the Bill"
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