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    "id": 720034,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this Bill. This is a good Bill and we all must support it. In the past, there are Kenyans that have been tortured and some of them are a living evidence about the cruelty of the State. Some of the people include Hon. Raila Odinga, the late Hon. Martin Shikuku, Hon. Koigi wa Wamwere and Hon. Kenneth Matiba. These are people who have gone through cruelty and inhuman treatment by the State. This Bill addresses some of these things that we can use to prevent any person committing a crime of torture against another human being. It is inhuman and degrading. Section (5) states that anybody who commits an offence shall be liable to conviction and imprisonment for a term not exceeding 25 years. This is a befitting punishment for such a person and it does not matter whether you received orders from your superior or you are being supervised by somebody else who commands you to commit torture. The moment you do it, you are personally and criminally liable for torturing somebody. The other beauty about this Bill is the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) being given power to investigate and on its own motion, monitor and investigate from the public and ensure that the perpetrators of this crime are brought to book. This is very important because the police sometimes tend to investigate themselves. When they are the ones who have committed this crime you find they keep on hiding some things and yet the torture goes through under their watch. In Criminal Justice, we have seen people brought to court purportedly for confessing on a crime either committed or not committed. This information is procured by police officers when they subject the victims to torture and ensure that they get information from him, but sometimes they even give him an already made statement for him to just sign. Sometimes they get away with it and the courts are duped to punish innocent people who have been brought to court by the police using shortcuts in their investigations. This Bill addresses the issue of any information procured through torture not being admissible as evidence. This is important because once this is established, then a person shall not be subjected to any criminal liability for a crime he purportedly committed. Also taking investigations away The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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