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    "id": 619440,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to also contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I would like to say that this is a very good document that can go far to mitigate the corruption that we have in the country. This is a situation where the institution that we expected to fight corruption finds itself in a very awkward situation where corruption is taking place right at the centre of the same institution. I tend to think that when the institution was given this money, it did not have good structures to manage the money. This is because the budget was increased within a very short time. Initially, the budget was about Kshs3 billion. It was increased to Kshs9 billion and then Kshs16 billion. This was done within a very short time without equivalent capacity building the institution. I think the Chief Justice found himself with a lot of money in the institution without good structures to manage the money. The Chief Registrar of the Judiciary was doing procurement by phone. This was terrible. It is the height of corruption that can ever take place in any institution. In this Report, you will find that the Chief Registrar had a single signatory account and I think that is not acceptable in a public institution. There are some issues that need thorough investigation. There is this procurement situation in the Government where we say Government to Government tendering should not undergo certain procedure of the law. We found that the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary used the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Enterprises Services Limited (JKUATES) as a Government institution. 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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