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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Gumo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fredrick fidelis Omulo Gumo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President talked about increasing the number of judges. Personally, up to today, I have never understood why those other judges were sacked. Luyia judges who were sacked were twelve and they were replaced by two judges. Luo judges who were sacked were eight. Kamba judges who were sacked were five. Judges from the Coast Province who were sacked were two. Does it mean to say that only the above judges were corrupt? If they were sacked because of corruption, then the Government should have sacked all the judges and employed new ones. One of those who were sacked has since been reinstated because he could not be proved guilty. For the others, we do not even know when their cases will end. This is a delaying tactic because the Government knows it has no evidence against them. If the Government knows that there is no evidence, why do they not reinstate them instead of employing other judges? We were told that some of them were sacked because they delayed justice. Today there are election petition cases in our courts which are unfinished. Is that not corruption because election petition cases need to be completed in six months? Elections are conducted and we have new hon. Members of Parliament. I am sure that majority of hon. Members who have election petition cases against them are on the Government side. They want these cases to be delayed for five years so that by the time the next general elections come they will have served their time in this House and yet they were here illegally. That is not fair. So, corruption is still there and it will continue. As long as the Government does not allow civil servants to work independently and Ministers are the ones who make decisions on behalf of civil servants, there will be corruption. If you look at the Anglo Leasing scam, you will find that the people who were involved heavily in it were Ministers. They gave orders and directives although they did not sign anywhere and said---"
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