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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I have not defected and I do not intend to do so. However, ‘baba’ is an icon that we all admire and respect. Therefore, I will be more than glad to meet him. I met him a few days ago and I thought that he did not know me. However, he told Sen. Murkomen, “I know this young Senator. I see him on NTV on Tuesdays and he hits me so hard, but I do not take offence because he is a young man and he is still learning his ways.” In a very subtle way, he told me to grow up. I respect him a lot. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was speaking about the days of detention without trial coming back into this country courtesy of the work that is being done by the DPP. This was in relation to this particular provision where the Constitution has spoken about how long a suspect can be kept in custody without trying them or releasing them. However, as it happened this week with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). He was charged and when the DPP was asked to lay the charges for one to take plea, they requested for more days to organise their case. One then wonders what the hurry for the arrest was. It is something that this House needs to properly prosecute. I urge my colleagues who sit in the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights to summon the DPP and get a better understanding of this particular issue. There might be need for us to properly word it so that we do not end up with the same scenario in our counties. The policemen are trained officers who have gone through an extremely rigorous training yet they do so. Can you imagine what enforcement officers who will, perhaps, be trained in a village polytechnic can do to members of the public if they are left on their own with this kind of a provision? Clause 16(1) is of great interest to me because it further supports what I am saying. It states that;- “Where an enforcement officer arrests a person, the officer shall immediately present the arrested person to the nearest police station.” It is important that we state that. We spoke earlier when we were contributing to The County Statutory Instruments Bill about the need for us to properly check the language that is used in the laws that we are passing. I love the fact that it has been stated that it is ‘immediately’ which does not have two meanings in the provisions of the English language. Therefore, I support that particular clause."
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