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    "id": 620632,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/620632/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2644,
        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
        "slug": "john-muriithi-waiganjo"
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    "content": "Previously, people would be held incommunicado without even knowing whether their names have been entered in the Occurrence Book (OB). You would not even know that you are supposed to be taken to court within 24 hours and you have no one to ask. With the operation of this Bill, the OCPD will be the first to tell a suspect that “by the way, there is the Legal Aid Bill and you are entitled to an advocate”. Then the answer the remandee gives must also be entered in a record. So, it will be very easy to track police stations that are holding people unlawfully or beyond 24 hours or even holding minors. With this kind of information, it will be easy when that person appears in court to raise the issue in the first instance before the judge or the magistrate and say that he has not been informed of his rights, or has been informed of the right and has not been provided with legal aid."
}