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    "id": 126993,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/126993/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 91,
        "legal_name": "Ndiritu Muriithi",
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    "content": "However, there are more fundamental questions that this Bill seeks to resolve. One of the biggest questions in Kenya today is the issue of reforms, be it in the Judiciary or the Police force. In the law enforcement system, the biggest question of reform is our ability to pay people. The establishment of the Judiciary provides for 501 magistrates. Right now, we have 250 magistrates. So, we are powering a system with only half the number of people allowed in the establishment. Why is this so? It is because we cannot pay people enough. On the prosecution side, we should have 458 prosecutors but right now, we have barely 60 prosecutors. It is only last month that we hired an additional 65 prosecutors. Why are we unable to identify and retain talent in these critical areas of the system of law enforcement in this country? The reason is that we are unable to pay people. We have to pay people competitive wages so that lawyers and other professionals find it acceptable to serve in the public sector."
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