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    "id": 720032,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/720032/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1909,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
        "slug": "samuel-kamunye-gichigi"
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    "content": "getting evidence through torture. There has not been a law specifically dealing with this issue. The judges give all sorts of findings, some dismissing matters and others giving peanuts in terms of compensation. This law is good because it now creates the necessary provisions under which a person can be compensated. Secondly, the person carrying out the torture can be sanctioned. Third, the victims of torture can be given protection as well as counselling. In any civilized society where people come together to form a Government, the cardinal ground for forming a governmnet is security. If the people that are given authority to govern turn around and start torturing their governed, then the basis of having a Government and hence civilization is thrown out of the window. So, with this sort of law, there will not be any doubt on the police and other bearers of arms and firearms on behalf of Government that torture is outlawed. It shall be punished and that the victims of torture have rights not only in the Constitution but even in statutes. We have seen what is happening even in other neighbouring countries and in Africa where systematic acts of torture end up decimating population. The psychological suffering that these victims experience is something that last forever. At times it breaks matrimony and this a Bill that we should all support. I support."
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