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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I want to thank my colleagues who contributed immensely to this very important and timely Bill. This is a very important Bill. My senior, Hon. Dalmas, was not in the House. This is one of the Bills that when I walk on the streets of Nairobi, I am reminded about. Even in December when I visited Nakumatt Junction, very elderly members of our society accosted me because they follow the calendar of Parliament. They said: “Hon. Duale, tell your colleagues and the Speaker to pass that Transfer of Prisoners Bill.” There are many of our people, as Hon. Dalmas has said, who are languishing in jails in Europe, Asia, China, the Americas, Africa and even within the East African region. Prison is a bad place, but I am sure far-land prison is worse. All that this Bill is doing is to allow our citizens, who are jailed in other countries to have the opportunity to serve their sentences in their own country and locality, and allow other countries, if they have their people who are serving in our jails, to also have the same opportunity. So, I am happy today. I have asked my colleagues that we finish the Second Reading today and do the Committee Stage early next week so that before the end of this month, this will be a law after the President assents to it. I am sure the Attorney-General (AG) and the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Interior and Coordination of National Government can pick from there. Our citizens and their family members can use the law that this House is going to provide to fill the required applications for their loved ones to come and serve sentences in Kamiti, Kodiaga, Manyani or in a prison in Garissa. This will enable them to have Kenyan food, enjoy the Kenyan weather and the spiritual guidance offered at our prisoners, so that their loved ones can visit them. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to reply."
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