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    "id": 267070,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Olago",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of staffing high courts outside Nairobi with sufficient number of judges has been pending for a very long time. The fact that Nairobi enjoys a large number of judges than anywhere else in the country has been a cause of concern. I had the privilege to serve as the chairman of Western Law Society for several years and in 1999, magistrates and advocates in Bungoma High Court had a strike against Justice Mary Ang’awa. It took my intervention to talk to the advocates in Bungoma to sit down and talk with Justice Ang’awa. So, as much as the amendment to the Judicature Act may help, the issue raised by Dr. Khalwale has got to be addressed. That aside, the issue that needs to be addressed also is how to let advocates know that their job and their training entails facing these challenges head on and not boycotting. To boycott by an advocate in my view is an act of cowardice. Instead of advocates in Bungoma boycotting, they should hold consultations and dialogue not just with the Chief Justice but with the Registrar of the High Court as well so that their grievances are addressed in a structured manner and not by boycott. Under these circumstances, is the Assistant Minister willing to give an undertaking to this House that he is going to push through the House Business Committee for the Judicature (Amendment) Bill to come before the House as soon as possible?"
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