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    "id": 530954,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I have been here since morning. Kiswahili is one of the national languages in Kenya. It is compulsory in schools. It is very close to our hearts and definitely most people speak it. Approximately 90 per cent of Kenyans speak and understand Kiswahili; even those who cannot write it. Every court in Kenya today has an interpreter because the judges and the magistrates normally speak in English. The interpreters are usually there to interpret to the people who are involved, either in Kiswahili or vernacular. Definitely, if this is used in court and it is embedded in the law being used in court, we will not need these interpreters and definitely we are going to save money for this country and make it even more efficient. There will be challenges because there are terminologies in the English format of the Constitution that cannot have a very direct translation and retain the meaning. Definitely, we will lose a bit of the meaning. In other instances, we will have to merge languages and we will have to allow “SHENG” inside there. We cannot have law taught in English and then implemented in Kiswahili. We will have to insist that the law schools use Kiswahili as a language of communication and a form of schooling so that we do not have challenges in interpreting the law when it comes to implementation. Lastly, if you look at the Elections Act, we have put the level of education so low that some of the lawmakers we have in county assemblies cannot communicate in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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