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    "id": 626788,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Sometimes, the reasons for the withdrawal of legal aid are caused by the applicants themselves. So, if they are going to suffer any prejudice, then it is prejudice which they have visited on themselves. Let us take the example of a criminal trial. If you misrepresent yourself as a poor person and it is discovered that you are not a poor person, then the service would have to be withdrawn. If you are going to suffer consequences, it is because of your original reasons that have caused the withdrawal. The Committee would be hard-pressed to support this because if there is any prejudice that results from withdrawal, there would definitely be prejudice resulting from the withdrawal of the legal aid services. But if the legal aid services withdrawal is justified in the section as covered in Clause 52, then that would just be as it is. I urge Hon. Okoth to drop this amendment and agree that where the Service needs to withdraw the legal aid, a sufficient seven- day notice is given for that purpose. The Committee will not support this particular proposal."
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