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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "This is a parliamentary function and the President stood here and, with impunity, told the House that they have already created new districts, appointed District Commissioners and they are going to get Parliament to rubber-stamp what they have already done. This is the supreme organ of this March 21, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 25 Government. So, this House should not be taken for granted by the Executive; that, they can say they created some new districts. How did you create them? Whom did you consult? Where are you going to put the headquarters for those districts? This is creating unnecessary tension all over the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was in Lokichar last week and there is serious tension between the Turkana and the Pokot because of the boundaries of the new districts. We are now being told that there is increase of Parliamentary constituencies. You first began by creating new districts and boundaries before you have drawn the boundaries of the new constituencies. It should be the other way round! On the issue of new judges, I want to agree with my friend over there that the increase of new judges is not going to improve the Judiciary, unless it is accompanied by independence. We want there, men and women of integrity. There are ten election petitions which were filed in 2003 which have not been heard and disposed of by this Judiciary, yet the Chief Justice was sitting here. The question we want to ask him is: Why should somebody who was aggrieved because the person he was running against was rigged in have to wait for five years to get a ruling? Even now if the court was to go and turn down the elections of 2002, of what use are they to the petitioners? Yet the Chief Justice can again come here and parade these people and you ask us to stand up and leave them to walk out silently!"
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