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    "content": "Each one of those houses which were meant for one officer is divided into two to accommodate two warders because of shortage of space. We should remember each of those warders has a family or is a young person with a girlfriend or boyfriend. The poor facilities of the warders are such that by the time they are put in charge of prisoners, he or she is so frustrated and lets out his frustration on the poor prisoners. This is because of the way they themselves are facilitated to live as Government officials. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the formation of this Committee, by supporting the Motion. Among the things they have to look at is not just the prisoners but also the warders. We also need a very serious debriefing of the warders because it is like they have been trained to be brutal to the people that they are supposed to look after. I hope once the Committee is formed and does its job, they will also come up with legislation of retraining warders – the one I am calling debriefing – over the years of the way to handle prisoners. That has to do with the persons who have already either been taken to court or remanded. That particular prison in the Industrial Area also takes up allocation, meaning, one has been sentenced to two or 20 years and the period between which they are sentenced and when they are taken to prison where they will serve their sentence, they stay in Industrial Area for some few months or years. However, there is also the issue of police cells, where suspects are detained for one reason or another. Again, we have a very serious situation where most of these police cells were built to contain perhaps 10 to 20 people – the ones for women are normally smaller – but you will find that they accommodate, maybe, five or 10 times more. It is an issue that the Committee should also come up with proper recommendations so that these facilities are taken seriously. They are part of the law enforcement and they should be expanded. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee should also look at the records. Very often, we have heard of people who have been arrested and taken to police stations but their relatives cannot trace them there. There should be a system of recording in the Occurrence Book (OB) where none of the 42 million Kenyans goes missing after he or she was arrested by the police. In this age of digitizing everything, we should have a central record of the OB for all the police stations. That way, any person who is detained for one reason or another can be found by their relatives and friends. If that person has been arrested by police because he or she is suspected for doing wrong, so be it. However, his or her relatives, friends and others who are concerned ought to reach an OB in any station and a central OB in order to know where their person has been detained. My last comment is on one Member who suggested that perhaps forming an ad"
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