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    "id": 241640,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/241640/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 47,
        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Therefore, for purposes of this debate, I will merely suggest to the Attorney-General that because the population of this country has grown to 33 million and we have 75 districts, we should have 100 judges in the country. Seventy five Judges can serve the independent districts that have already been established and the other 25 can serve Nairobi. I say this because the Attorney- General will agree with me, having been a former chairman of the Law Society of Kenya and Secretary-General of the African International Bar Association and so on. I will go further and say that the time for splitting Nairobi into several judicial districts has also come. We should have, at least, three districts for judicial purposes, so that a person who has a case which starts in Westlands, for example, is not forced through traffic to come to the Central Business District. We should have, at least, three judicial districts for Nairobi. Each district in this country should be entitled, as of right, to have a judicial office in the form of a Judge. I was surprised that the Attorney-General, in moving this amendment, he did not tell us what became of the radical surgery that the NARC Government came with, with regard to the judiciary. If we all remember, 23 Judges of the High Court were sent away and tribunals appointed. This is the only surgery I know of in which both the doctor and patient died."
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