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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "opportunity to thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy. I thank our Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Labour, the Hon. Karemba. I thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. The other Chairman is of the Departmental Committee on Sports and Culture. They were very diligent in the work they put in as they considered these amendments. Allow me to tell our judicial officers something: in accordance with the mandate conferred to the Judicial Service Commission by Article 172(1)(b) and Article 251(d) of our Constitution, the Commission can now review and determine transport facilitation and rates of reimbursement of daily subsistence expended by judicial officers like judges and other staff of the Judiciary. The Judiciary and judicial officers, from judges of the High Court to judicial officers in lower courts all the way to magistrates, have suffered for some time. They have been subjected to the vagaries of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC). In accordance with the provisions of Article 172(1)(b) and Article 252 (1)(d), the Judicial Service Commission can now review and determine what facilitation befits a judge of the Supreme Court. They may determine what facilitation befits a magistrate in a far-flung corner of our country where the road network is not very good and the State does not facilitate them to serve the people in those jurisdictions. With the amendments in this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, it will now be possible for the Judicial Service Commission to do that and facilitate the efficient working and delivery of justice to Kenyans across the country. I hear whispers, \"What about Members of Parliament?\" The Parliamentary Service Commission does the same. It determines remuneration or facilitation of your movement. Probably, I should take this opportunity to remind the Parliamentary Service Commission that Members of Parliament from Nairobi and areas surrounding Nairobi like Kikuyu Constituency, Machakos, Murang’a, Kiambu, and parts of Kajiado, are not facilitated. They also spend much of their resources to attend to their constituents. The Parliamentary Service Commission and our commissioners that we elected in this House are aware of their core responsibility. We told them that part of their core responsibility is to ensure there is equity in the facilitation of transport to Members of Parliament. We are in the third year of this House. We are having them notice that they must meet the expectations of Members of Parliament from the vicinity of Parliament or constituencies and counties that are nearer Nairobi. That is so that there is equity. With those many remarks, I support and thank Hon. Members for their commitment to be here up to this time in support of this Bill. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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