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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, I support the Chairman’s dropping of that particular amendment. There were concerns that an increment from 30 to 70 – an addition of 40 judges – might be too heavy a burden considering the state of our economy. The reason why the Departmental Committee Chairman has dropped the amendment, as he has said, is the understanding after further consultation that the 40 judges are not to be hired at once, but rather are to be hired incrementally over the years. So, if we need another ten judges in the next financial year, you can add and if you need another ten in another three years, you can add instead of all the time having to come back to Parliament to change the law. That makes it look quite untidy. This will be through a consultative process between the Judiciary, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, and the Executive in terms of budgetary proposals because the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs oversees the Judiciary’s budget."
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