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    "id": 74189,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/74189/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to thank the Prime Minister for bringing up this matter. This issue has affected the Coast very seriously. Last year alone, on cruise tourism alone, we had about 11,000 people coming to visit. Around the same time this year, we have just about 500 people. This is about 95 per cent drop on cruise tourism alone. I could not agree more with him that piracy has affected the Kenyan people seriously. However, the issue I want to raise concerns the court ruling that he has referred to. I have with me here, Section 69 of the Penal Code, which states as follows, in Subsection (1):- “69(1). Any person who in territorial waters or upon the high seas commits any act of piracy jure gentium is guilty of the offence of piracy”. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, despite this specific provision, the High Court, sitting in Mombasa, acquitted eight people. This is the clarification I want to seek from the Prime Minister. Although he has said that the Attorney-General has gone on appeal, there are two specific arguments he needs to look at and tell us what the Government is doing about them. The first thing the lawyers of the pirates were saying was that the Kenya Government has not signed any international maritime convention. Can the Prime Minister clarify why the Kenya Government, has not done that? Why are we being exposed to a legal incapacity to deal with pirates? The second specific question, on which I want clarification, is that the Prime Minister has said that we have signed agreements with the United Kingdom, Denmark and other countries, including Canada, the European Union, et cetera; but the lawyers have argued that those agreements that have been signed between Kenya and other"
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