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    "id": 588919,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/588919/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "This Bill seeks to do away with outdated laws that govern the administration of justice. If we do away with those laws, Kenyans will receive justice. There is a lot of wastage of resources by the Judiciary. You remember that in the last Budget, we had to cut their Budget because there was too much and the absorption rate was low. If the Judiciary is allocated a lot of money, we should see reforms, speedy delivery of justice, efficiency in management and more law courts built. This Bill should address those issues. Those are some of the issues that I am saying that we will move some amendments on. Several judges have withdrawn from cases after being threatened by criminals and sometimes by people in power. We have seen them pulling out of some cases. This Bill shields the judges from those threats. The judges cannot deliver justice when they are under threat either from criminals or from people in authority. They should be left alone to give justice to all Kenyans. Under some laws, some people end up imprisoned after being prosecuted wrongly. In this Bill, I have not seen a provision in terms of what we should do to the people who have been accused wrongly using false information and have been put in prison or fined. Those are the kind of things that I wanted this Bill to address, so that people get proper sentences or judgements based on facts and not misleading information."
}