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    "id": 1475341,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": "is the problem with passing names here? The other thing that has shocked me about this judgment is the assertion that the term of the fund manager is five years, which is equivalent to the five-year term of a member of parliament. There are fund managers who have been in office for the last 20 years. I do not know what the judges were reading. Did they read the submissions from our lawyers? I am very shocked because the judges have behaved as though they live in another country. Hon. Speaker, there is something I must say here. Recently, in my constituency, there was a burial of a judge. The funeral was conducted in a primary school whose classrooms were built by NG-CDF. They were not built by county governments or anybody else. Every person in this country knows the way NG-CDF has changed the lives of Kenyans, including the judges. Do they not visit their homes? Do they not come from villages in this country? I would like to inform the judges that, in my constituency alone, there are over 4,000 students who are benefitting from bursaries. Those are orphans or children of single mothers. Where do they expect us to take those children if NG-CDF is scrapped? The best thing I can do is to put those children in a bus and take them to the homes of the judges so that they can give them school fees for them to go back to school. You cannot make the lives of Kenyans miserable by pronouncing a judgment that does not make any sense, according to me. We are allowed to critique judgments. They had their say and we must also have ours on the Floor of this House. I have been a supporter of the independence of the Judiciary but now, I have come to believe that the Judiciary lives in an ivory tower. They must come down from that tower. The problem in this country is that among the three arms of Government, two of them, that is the Executive and the Legislature, are subjected to accountability through elections after every five years. Judges are never accountable to anyone but themselves and the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), where a majority of members are judges. They just wait until they reach 70 years and retire. They are not accountable to anybody. Why do you want to make the lives of Kenyans so miserable by saying that NG-CDF is not doing anything or is unconstitutional? This is a judgment that has been procured by the Council of Governors (CoG). It is out of ego."
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