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    "id": 809555,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to thank the Member who has asked for this and really commend him for bringing this matter of national concern to the House. We are gradually retrogressing into the bad days when human rights were not respected. When we fought for and worked on the new Constitution, it was on the understanding that every Kenyan has a right to be respected and to enjoy his life and privileges without interruption. I wish the lawyers in this House were here. What we have seen, much as we all dislike the issues at the NYS, all the people in court are suspects until proven guilty. But when the public says they should be locked up and hanged, you have already condemned them. That is not what we want. That is not what a nation that prides itself as being founded on the rule of law should be doing. You do not see that anywhere. If we do not condemn it as a House, tomorrow it could be you or somebody else. That is where we join the mob and when it happens to you, as it happened to our colleague Hon. Arama over the weekend and so many others, it is only when they come for you, for all manner of things, that you will actually hear what it means to keep silent when illegalities are being committed. We used to have something called robbery with violence and people would be banged in forever because there was no bail available. And that was one of the reasons when we went to Bomas, we said let every offence be bailable so that people have an opportunity to access their The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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