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    "id": 1121456,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "One single case that is of limited pecuniary value may be a dispute over Kshs10,000, but could take as much time as a dispute of millions or billions of shillings. You can see the suffering that we, Kenyans, experience because of this standoff. Assuming the Judiciary and the Executive are bulls, how I pray that the bulls that are fighting understood that it is the grass they eat that makes them function. In other words, the citizens of this nation are the taxpayers and donors of the mandate and sovereignty they enjoy. Therefore, they must start thinking about the welfare of the citizens and do something that will not occasion endless suffering among us, as the citizens of this country. I know that those in authority, like us, desire something called judicial accountability. Until we put it in law, this remains the law and nobody should imagine that they have some better reasons to create their own laws, precedents and authority and try to apply something else that is unknown to law. Until we establish how we legally want to carry out judicial accountability, this count of behaviour by the Executive, and specifically by the President, should not be tolerated. If we tolerate this, then there is no way of standardizing what is called judicial accountability. I hope that someday after “Tinga,” somebody from Mt. Kenya will become the president and it should be Sen. Linturi. Next time he comes up with his own methodology of judicial accountability, then this nation will be uncertain as the number of presidents or executives that we have. In conclusion, I appeal to the Executive to put the interest of Kenyans and the nation first and ensure that the law that put them in office is adhered to strictly without trying to create some imaginary authority or method of accountability and subject our Judiciary to such imaginary or whimsical manner of accountability. I also want to appeal to our Committee to start thinking of how to introduce judicial accountability legally, by debating it and involving everybody, including the Judiciary and all Kenyans. When it is agreed to by all of us, and it is the law, we should all follow it. For now, we must condemn in the strongest terms firmly and swiftly what the President is doing against the Judiciary and ask the Judiciary to be measured and restrained when it comes to pushback. Thank you very much Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support this Report."
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