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    "id": 588963,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "As I speak, it is interesting that this morning in Ghana, seven judges were sent home because of corruption. It will interest you to know how they were discovered to be corrupt. Someone went round the courts filming how the judges conduct themselves. So, the idea that judges may be a law unto themselves is going to be cured through this Bill. We are setting up a system of ensuring that the High Court is transparent, and that a judge presiding over any matter is not the last person who has a say on what happens in the Judiciary. Establishing the position of a principal judge of the High Court and having a presiding judge at every station will ensure some level and chain of command from the lowest-ranked judge to the presiding judge at every High Court station. This will ensure that matters that can be handled administratively at the level of a station are handled at that level before they are taken to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) or any other level for that matter. Devolution is a very important thing in this country, especially the fact that we set it out in the Constitution that we will also decentralise the Judiciary. I am happy that the Judiciary is being decentralised. In Siaya County, we had been travelling all the way to Kisumu to reach a High Court station. You can imagine someone from near Hon. Wekesa’s constituency having to 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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