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    "id": 181805,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, obviously, there has been lack of proper planning for development in our country which is what we have been trying to reverse since 2003. It is not possible to overcome the disjointed efforts of more than two or three decades in just six years. However, progress is being made. A lot of construction of court buildings and improvement of facilities is going on. We also have the problem of the personnel and ourselves as citizens. We say we want change but we also resist change. Within the Judiciary itself, we have officers who work very hard and others who are not putting in much work. When it comes to litigants and their advocates, advocates are forever applying for adjournment and applying all manner of techniques to delay hearings. Advocates act on behalf of litigants who are again the citizens. We have to put our act together as a nation so that we can get the wheels of justice moving. I want to suggest that, during constitutional review, we need very innovative methods of changing the way our justice system operates by ensuring that we have legislation and rules that make it impossible for a litigant and their lawyers to delay the hearings and also policing by having the Judicial Service Commission have an inspectorate that will ensure every Judicial Officer puts in a good day's work."
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