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    "id": 610317,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimaru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Mutahi Kimaru",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this very honourable Motion by my friend, hon (Eng.) Gumbo. As my colleagues have said, I wonder where these judges come from. They must be from an area called “utopia”. If they came from any village and had seen what CDF has done, they would not have dared pass that judgment. Secondly, I am left wondering where the Government really was. The Attorney- General himself gave a commentary, or an advisory, that the CDF is unconstitutional. Were we reading from the same script with this very Attorney-General? I have heard of the devil’s advocate but I have never heard of a hostile counsel. In this case, we had a hostile counsel, who instead of pursuing our interest, went there to fight against the CDF. I really wonder who had given him the brief. He must have been representing somebody, and if he was representing that person, I think there is more to it than meets the eye. There are forces who do not want the CDF to continue. I would have preferred the Attorney-General to have been the devil’s advocate, if, indeed, the CDF was unconstitutional. I hear he is a mortician; he only deals with dead bodies; it is no wonder that even in that case, he could not defend the CDF. On the gains that the CDF has had over time, for very many years we did not see any development anywhere, but because of the several devolved funds like KURA, KERRA and the CDF, we have achieved development. When somebody sits in a court and says that the CDF should be channeled through the county government, this is a person who is day dreaming. This is because today what devolved governments have done--- Even with the meagre resources that the CDF has had, it has outdone the governors. So, why would you entrust your sheep to that very same wolf that swallows up everything? It is not judicious. I do not think these people used any jurisprudence as they should have. Judges are supposed to read not only the letter of the law but the spirit of the law. The idea is to benefit the common mwananchi in the village. They should have been judicious enough. They should have exercised jurisprudence. They should have read the bigger picture and not the small irrelevant details. 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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