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    "id": 287147,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you come from one of the most marginalized counties in this country. A citizen in Lodwar or Lokitaung, whose rights have been trampled and must get an injunction within six hours, where do you go? You have no capacity to fly. If you take road transport, the nearest High Court is in Kitale. How long does it take you to reach there? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must access justice to all. To access justice to all this Parliament has to vote for money to build judicial establishments in decent forms; not fabulous things that cost millions of shillings. We need decent structures as court rooms. We also need decent structures for judges to live in. If we expect the best from judges, then we need to put up decent structures for them. I do not believe that we should send judges out there to live in rented houses even if we will give them allowances to pay rent. Sometimes under pressure, like everybody else, he may end up not paying rent on time and then the next day, the landlord is appearing before him and he has a duty to dispense justice. The Government must build residential houses for judges, so that they do not find themselves in those predicaments. So, as we increase the numbers, we must increase the facilities. We must also improve the working conditions."
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