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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Clause 6 is about fighting corruption. It is about court cases being handled in a timely manner. This is a matter that is close to my heart. This country is bleeding. People are dying in this country and cannot get services because of corruption. Nothing else! Children cannot access schools. People cannot get medical services. People are going hungry because of corruption. For the first time, we are saying that court cases must be finished within a fixed period of time. I dare say that we may need, after this goes through, as an Assembly, to ensure that we put stricter measures. I have always joked that I respect the law. Yes, if I became the President tomorrow, I can assure you that a couple of men will have to die. We cannot have people stealing. They are disturbing the country. They have bought the courts and everywhere. If I were the President and tomorrow someone stole money, I would send them to the airport and kill them along the way. I would not allow them to leave. We have a country where we know who is stealing from us. We know who they are, but they come on television to tell us how they are not thieves. They will not live in my regime! I can assure you. If there is a High Court judge or a Supreme Court judge who is taking money from litigants, I will kill him. If it is a Member of this Assembly, say, a committee chairperson, who gets money from ministries during oversight, I will kill him, so that we have a proper country that is clean enough. We cannot be claiming that we want to be clean and yet we are doing deals with ministries here and there. We need to deal with corruption. We cannot talk about corruption and hope it will go away. That is why this provision is very important. I hope the judiciary that we are strengthening and giving too much money will take the cue. We cannot have a judiciary where cases take 10 to 15 years in court to be determined. We The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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