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    "id": 617767,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "legal aid licence. Part XI of the Bill deals with award of costs in civil proceedings. Lastly, Part XIII of the Bill contains miscellaneous provisions. In a nutshell, that is the summary of the Legal Aid Bill, 2015, which gives effect to a number of provisions in the Constitution. Before I hand over the remaining time to the Vice-Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to second the Bill, I want to pose this question: Is access to justice in Kenya affordable, sustainable, credible and accountable? This Bill is coming at the right time when we are dealing with access to justice and its affordability. If the tribunal which the President was told to set up is set up and maybe it gives the verdict that, yes, litigants and everybody who was involved in that case paid US$2 million bribe, then it shows it is not about accessibility. It is very expensive to access justice in our country. How many people can pay US$2 million? Not many, I am sure. It is high time that the so-called temple of justice remained a temple of justice. There are very many men and women in the Judiciary for whom I have a lot of respect and who I can confirm have high level of integrity, but I am sure, from the reports before this House by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs on the Judiciary and the PAC on the leadership of the Judiciary, from the many cases that former top leadership of the Judiciary are facing in court and from the recent developments around Justice Tunoi and his company, we can confirm that the temple of justice is cracking. It is collapsing at a very fast rate. One night at 11.30 O’clock, I tweeted to my friend the Chief Justice (CJ). I asked: “Can the CJ, Hon. Willy Mutunga, confirm the Supreme Court and the Judiciary is faced with corruption?” Barely one minute later, the CJ tweeted back and said: “Not at the level of Parliament.” I was very worried because he panicked. When he was tweeting, he was not sober. I was very happy because he panicked. When he was tweeting, he was not sober. So, I tweeted back and said that we are not talking about levels of corruption between the Judiciary and Parliament. “I am only asking you to confirm if you, as the President of the Supreme Court and Head of the Judiciary, is faced with graft allegations.” So, the second time, the Chief Justice was very sober. He only tweeted back and said: “@ Hon. A.B. Duale, usiku Mwema ” and I said: “Goodnight.”"
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