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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was in some Homa Bay corner here. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to make a contribution to this Bill: The Transfer of Prisoners Bill, 2014. I wanted to start by saying that prisons are correctional institutions. The main reason why we set up prisons is to correct certain characters that we feel need to live differently with us in the society. In this era of international crime, where we are a global village and people move from one place to another, many Kenyans are jailed outside there in other countries sometimes on petty offences, and we would not want a Kenyan to suffer in foreign prisons. We also get other nationalities; people from other countries come to our country and commit crimes, some of which are so serious that you do not want them to be put in our prisons. You would want them to go back to their countries after sentencing, so that we are not exposed to unnecessary risks. I have in mind those foreigners who come here and commit terrorist activities. The moment you keep them in our prisons then you subject our country to acts of terrorism. Therefore, there is need, as a country, to have a legal framework in place which will help us seek transfer of some of the prisoners whom 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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