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    "id": 718864,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/718864/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "If you go further and look at the investigations and examinations in Clause 30 which proposes investigations and matters to be ascertained, it clearly says what needs to be done. For example, the purpose of the investigation into a person’s death is to ascertain the particulars of the deceased how, when and where the deceased met his or her death, the cause and manner of death and particulars required under the Births and Deaths Registration Act. It gives all details up to the state of the person. This Bill is laudable. We need to move with speed and I hope Members are going to support it so that we speed this process and ensure that this law is passed. We need to ensure that it protects Kenyans who have suffered under such circumstances and that in future we do not allow such cases and cover up or evidence is destroyed or scenes of crime are tampered with, which makes it very difficult even for a good investigator to undertake an investigation. You make it very difficult for investigators even to find leads that can enable the investigator to follow up and get to the root of the matter. This Bill also provides for protection of scene of crime to the extent that it ensures that the investigator will have good time to get to investigate the matter. Under Part IV of the Bill, Clauses 24 to 29 set out the obligations like I explained earlier; to report reportable deaths and investigations of reportable deaths. Any person who suspects that unnatural death has occurred as a result of among other things, violence, misadventure, negligence, misconduct, is expected to notify the coroner. If this happens, it is going to change a lot of things in our country, particularly where we have had suspicious deaths where people are killed for their stand in politics, people are assassinated for economic issues and so on. I support this Bill. I hope it is not just going---"
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