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    "id": 82876,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/82876/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this important Motion that has been very ably moved and seconded by my two predecessors. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya is a very different country today. In another constitutional dispensation, we would just have read a notice or announced from some corner that so-and-so has been appointed into this body. We are seeing the beginning of germination of the constitutional seed. We, in Kenya, are setting an example of what a constitutional Government is, how it should behave and how the affairs of the Kenyan people should be governed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in supporting this important Motion, I must say that I personally know Justice Lenaola. I have appeared before him in a constitutional court. I must also say that of all the judges of these courts, some who have had records of more than 30 years experience, none has the intellectual capacity that I have seen from Justice Lenaola. In fact, I appeared before him and the now Justice for the International Criminal Court (ICC), Lady Justice Aluoch and Justice Hatari Waweru in a constitutional reference involving the arrest and torture of former Air Force detainees. Mr. Justice Lenaola led the other two judges in writing a constitutional judgment that has far reaching repercussion and has set the pace for many other judgments that have come up including the judgment in the Nyayo House torture cases, where former detainees have been given compensation for the torture they received."
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