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    "id": 1493653,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "that have gone to the courts, one of the things that the High Court has always disregarded is public interest. What is public good? The Judiciary is an arm of Government that utilises public resources. They receive and spend the resources, and then nullify a whole Bill and yet, they have benefited from that same law. That makes one wonder what happens in our country. We have gone through a rough time on matters of public participation. The last ruling from the Kerugoya High Court forced us to conduct public participation at the constituency level. At least, we have now come to an agreement between the two arms of Government that we just need to notify the public on public participation. Remember that Kenyans are not the type of people who you can force to attend public participation. Some will come but demand facilitation to attend. It is not something that they participate in willingly. That has really hurt many of the decisions that we have made. Just as I said in the morning, we also need to speak to the Senate. That is because most of those cases are not about the courts, but about us as Parliament. We have to re-think the issue of suing each other in court. Lastly, we also need to appeal the case of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) at the Court of Appeal. As much as we know that we will change the law, it is important to appeal to a court that understands public interest. This is a law that has served Kenyans for more than 25 years. What else can you do if you are a court of law? Going through the NG-CDF judgment, you wonder what the judges were reading. It is a very unfortunate judgment. I wish that we could go back and re-look at the judgment on the NG-CDF and deal with it once and for all. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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