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    "id": 834665,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834665/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " I have got my voice when Hon. Limo is now talking about sentencing. I can be sentenced any time. I may be sentenced by virtue of this legislation. I think we need to have some type of order in sentencing in Kenya. The thinking of the Committee looks like Kshs5 million is as punitive a sentence as two years but, before, Kshs500,000 was being equated to three years. There is need for some policy on proportional harmonisation. Whereas it is too late now to start going back, perhaps the Chair should think of Kshs5 million going to Kshs1 million and then for a term not exceeding two years, or both. This is because the principal of law is that, if you are in doubt, you would rather go for the lesser sentence than to go for the higher sentence which, in the view of legislators, may not be harmonisation that we want in terms of punitive measures in this country."
}