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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. Dullo for this great Motion. This demonstrates her commitment to human rights. For the purpose of this House, Sen. Dullo and I served in the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), where she was in charge of penal reforms. This is an extremely important Motion for this Senate, so that we can start to interrogate the aspirations of our Constitution, particularly, when it comes to Chapter Four, which is the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights ensures that all persons are accorded a certain standard of treatment. Those we jail and those who are free must ascribe to a certain standard of treatment. I remember the words of Mirugi Kariuki, the late Assistant Minister for Internal Security and Provincial Administration and who also served as the Nakuru Town Member of Parliament. He once said that a society is best judged not by how it treats the highest and mightiest of its citizens but how it treats its most undesirable citizens. Therefore, how we treat those in our correctional facilities tells the type of society that we are in. This is a country that likes to condemn those people just on mere allegations. That is why I said the media, Parliament and every institution has what I call social responsibility to ensure that rights and issues pertaining to the dignity of humans and certain aspersions that are cast on them are treated with caution to avoid what I call irreparable damage of image. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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