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    "id": 626966,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "especially all the partners outside Parliament, who for a long time, have been providing legal aid in places like Kibra, Mathare and Kiandutu, to the poorest of Kenyan society. I think we have entered a new day where these services will be provided with Government support. The National Legal Aid and Awareness Programme (NALEAP) was a very key pilot programme that showed the need and the feasibility of this programme and I pray that even though there are sections of the Bill which we passed that say we will establish legal aid offices in every county progressively, that progressively will be in the near future and not in a far distant future; that within actually the next five years the right to access legal aid and to get these services close to all citizens of Kenya in every county and corner. I thank the Committee Chair especially for her spirited execution of the amendments and elucidation of why the Committee brought some of the amendments they did. It has helped clarify my mind where they were coming from and I look forward to working with the Committee on other important human rights legislations. Thank you very much and thanks to all the partners like Kituo Cha Sheria which was chaired before by Hon. Priscilla, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Kenya Human Rights Commission, International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), CRADLE on the rights of children and the Centre for Rights of Education and Awareness (CREW) on behalf of victims of gender-based violence in places like Kibra. For everyone who has been doing this work now there is law for us to support you. Thank you for the work you have done before. I am excited that now this House will be able to budget and the Government should put in place as soon as possible the institutions so that even possibly in this year’s Budget we can have provisions for this law and by next year it comes into action. Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker. With that I support."
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