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    "id": 981732,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Rev.) Waqo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Jilo Waqo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this. I congratulate Sen. Kwamboka for coming up with the Statement. I stand to support this important Statement because of the situation in our country. Earlier, we spoke about the health issues in our country and the suffering that our people go through. Now that we are discussing this, when you visit prisons, you sympathise with the people who are there. The situation is pathetic, especially the women’s department. It is worse than other departments. I support this Statement because as a Government, we keep on allocating money, but the service is not getting to the people who deserve this. Many of the people who go to our prisons get out when they are discouraged, hopeless and even some suffer from health and mental issues. That is because we have not provided a conducive environment for them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the people who go to our prisons are human beings like us. Some of them are our sisters, brothers and children. We need to give them all the attention that they deserve so that even as they stay in there, they know that they are human beings like any other. I know some people who have been providing services to prisons for many years, but they have not been paid. These are poor people and young people in business who have supplied goods and provide other services to the prisons, but they have not been paid. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Statement and I urge the Committee that will look into this issue to give attention to the status of our prisons and also to the people who have given services to prisons but have not been paid, for years."
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