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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kioni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ng'ayu Kioni",
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    "content": "for Kimilili, Mheshimiwa Barasa, for bringing this up. It worries me to think that Kenyans in this area could be subjected to this kind of torture again. One of the things that could help, because this Motion talks of many things, including issues of defilement and rape... I do not know whether Members are aware that in our courts today 60 to 65 per cent of the cases that are being prosecuted on a daily basis relate to rape and defilement. It would be important for us to think about it. It is a major problem in our country, especially in the smaller towns like Nyahururu in our place. Even as we think through this issue, let us also reflect and question ourselves. Like I have said there were politicians who were involved that time. As we go through it now, we need to know whether we are creating an environment that allows criminality to thrive within our areas. One of the shortcomings with the prosecution is that…. I had a short stint with the Office of the DPP and what happens is that the prosecutors have introduced professionalism with the introduction of the DPP’s Office. The prosecutors are now lawyers; quite a number of them are young lawyers and they are doing very well. But all the police officers who are involved in gathering evidence and producing it in court report to the OCSs. They do not report to the prosecutors. For that reason, the police officers really mess up evidence, for the reason that either they do not want to be called to the courts many times or they do not want the perpetrators to be caught. I think one of the things we need to do is to get police officers involved in prosecution reporting to the prosecutors. Two, we need to come up with a law that punishes every police officer who messes up evidence, either in production or in the gathering of evidence. That way, criminals will know that they will not have Christmas in court. As it is now, people caught in this country are almost certain that they will be freed. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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