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    "id": 610303,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "When you look at what has been happening in our courts, there are about three judges who are known; every time they get a case, their ruling depends on who brought it. I say so because I remember there was an issue that had to do with the recruitment of police officers and they ruled against it. Our children are still at home waiting for the police to recruit again. It is taking many years simply because of their actions. The other day they also ruled against the security laws which went through this same House. Today, again they are telling us that this CDF is unconstitutional. You hear a judge say that an Act is unconstitutional and we are given a period of 12 months to amend it. I thought as a layman that once something is considered unconstitutional, it should be scrapped. Why give us 12 months when you know that it is unconstitutional? There is a lot to be looked at. This House must make sure that we do what we are supposed to do even if it means amending the Constitution for the first time. We have about Kshs 6 billion lying in the Treasury. This is the Equalisation Fund. It is lying there while our people are suffering. There are 14 counties that should receive this money. Since people are taking time, what will the Judiciary say? This is people’s money and they must get it so that they can improve their lives. Anybody who knows how we are using the CDF knows that it has changed lives. Yesterday I was called by one of the ladies whose children I have been helping to go to school. She is a poor widow and she asked me one question in my mother tongue: “Do you want to tell me that the money that you have been paying for my children’s school fees is no more?” I told her to just be patient because we are working on it. I did not want to tell her the whole story. As we were talking, I told her that, maybe, our governors will help us to pay some of the school fees. She said she had never seen that ‘animal’ called governor."
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