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    "id": 593359,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the deplorable conditions of our prisons and other places of detention in our country are known worldwide. Many reports have been written and Sen. Wako forgot to mention the tremendous steps that we took when I was the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs in trying to alleviate the conditions in our prisons. Although I did not get a doctorate like the then Vice President, we worked together with Uncle Moody Awori and raised a lot of money through the project that we created with Sen. Wako called Governance, Justice, Law and Order Sector (GJLOS). It is through that project that we raised money to buy buses for prisoners in this country. We supported this department and understood the great challenges that the prison department was facing largely because congestion in prisons was not being created by the prisons themselves, but the police. Over the weekend, they would go and sweep all the drunkards and bring them to court on Monday and the magistrate who remands them was not in communication with the prison officers to know whether there was space in the remands where they were being sent to. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is need for intervention in the entire justice chain. The spirit of the Motion is good because if I understand it correctly, Sen. Adan wants to get the Prisons and the Borstal Institutions Act to be amended and brought in line with the new Constitution of Kenya and the international instruments on human rights of the detained persons. This is a matter which concerns the implementation of human rights, constitutional provisions on human rights and implementation of Kenya’s international obligations on human rights. 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."
}