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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to make a Statement very quickly on behalf of myself, the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations on something very important that has happened in Kitui during our visit. However, it is also a request, and some Members are here. This Statement is about the prisons in Kitui. (1) The Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations should explain how a private developer acquired and gazzetted land belonging to the prison and subsequent approvals to construct a multi-storey building next to the prison overlooking the prison. (2) What is the cause of the prolonged and unwarranted increased delay of up to seven years in cases pending in Kitui Magistrates Court and High Court, meting out unwarranted suffering to remandees and causing congestion in prisons? (3) What intervention has the Committee put in place to resolve the challenges being faced by the remandees and prisoners under prison administration? (d) Why are the prison warders in Kitui excluded in the risk allowances awarded to other civil servants working in the county? (e) What measures has the Government put in place to ensure timely issuance of police clearance certificates and certificates of good conduct after the jail term is served fully? What is the interface between the prisons and the DCI to facilitate issuance thereof? Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to make one comment. In the process of preparing this Statement, it has come to my attention that nearly 100 remandees have been released following the intervention of the two Committees. Thank you."
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