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    "id": 626416,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Chairlady. I stand to oppose this amendment. I would have supported what my friend, Hon. Ken, had suggested. We have only 47 counties in this country and we are talking about the availability of legal aid services to the people who cannot afford it. Maybe some counties have more than one court, but providing one legal aid officer per county cannot be that expensive. If we leave the clause as amended, it means we leave the establishment of branches at the prerogative of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to decide where to put them. What criteria are they going to use? It would depend on how well people go and lobby. Then places like Turkana will stay without an office while places like Machakos, which is close to Nairobi, will have legal aid officers because they will have lobbied. It is critical that we have branches in all the 47 counties. Therefore, I oppose that amendment. I would have preferred branches for all the counties. 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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