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    "id": 937800,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/937800/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
        "slug": "abshiro-soka-halake"
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    "content": "a bit of a concern around Sen. Faki’s assertion, that rapists were being held and the people that they raped are continuing with their lives; that is how it should be. May be it is my Kiswahili language that let me down. I was in Isiolo prison. I saw a young lady with her baby, who was two months old, waiting for her hearing. She said that she bought a goat which had apparently been stolen. Instead of the community siting together and deciding whose goat it was, who sold it and what happened, we found ourselves in a situation where a two-month old baby was condemned to a prison. Since the next hearing was a bit far away, the young mother was incarcerated there with her baby, waiting for her case to be heard. These are issues that would never arise if we had alternative mechanisms in place, or if we utilised the existing – even if not formal – written procedures and structures that are in place. It is about time we embraced these alternative mechanisms, and a lot of money will be saved. Our courts are already suffering budget cuts. They do not even have proper communication because of the fact that their budgets have been cut. This would ease the burden on our courts and communities themselves. Many a times, communities themselves have had to suffer very much. They do not just suffer the cost, but the stress of having to go through the court process and shuffling between their villages and towns, where these courts are."
}