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    "id": 697490,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/697490/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2644,
        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "The amendments are to make sure that the Witness Protection Agency operates in a free and efficient manner, its operations are consistently well funded and that the membership of this agency is drawn properly from different professions. This Bill demonstrates that we need to pass a law in the current situation in our country, particularly in the criminal justice system. It is the Witness Protection Bill that takes care of the witnesses who go to our courts to give evidence and testify particularly in matters related to murder and other inquiries. This includes even those that are done outside the country where Kenya is a party, or in different treaties that the Kenya Government has bound itself. So, this is an important Bill. Contemporary and currently, we have examples where a witness goes to court, testifies against a suspect or an accused person. Subsequently, that witness is murdered in dubious circumstances or is harassed, intimidated, some are raped or ripped. This is an important agency and we must look into the law that creates it to make sure that whenever witnesses come to court, they are not only protected but also give evidence in an environment that will not expose them to criminals or other people who may come to listen to the proceedings in courts."
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