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    "id": 809568,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/809568/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I thank the MP who has brought this to the House. The menace being seen in this country in terms of ensuring that people are arrested on Friday is a way of escaping the fact that formerly, during the one-party state one would be arrested and detained for a very long period of time before being produced in court. Now, to try and jump that element, that is why the police and other senior people are going ahead to arrest not only Hon. Members but also Kenyans and keeping them in custody over the weekend so that they can extend that time. Our Constitution in Section 50(2)(b) is very clear that one is presumed innocent until the contrary is proved. That is one factor that they are contravening. Therefore, this is something that should be stopped. I like the cue the House has taken. It began simply with maybe Miguna Miguna and at that particular time we thought it was just easy and politics. It later went to some Cabinet Secretaries whom Members of Parliament do not want to be mentioned like the CS, Interior and he went away with it. It is catching up with everybody. It is better we stand strong and keep to the law and protect even the NYS suspects. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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