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    "id": 645748,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, sorry because what I may say is a bit of repetition for I came in late. Please, bear with me. First of all, in terms of what I have seen here as money paid as legal fees, I am a little bit surprised that so much of this money could be paid as legal fees. I think the courts, even in elections petitions and a lot of legal fees that were expended by the governors were in regard to election petitions---. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know that the High Court and other superior courts generally after the end of a hearing of an election petition, they cap the cost so that you are not allowed to demand costs of more than Kshs2 million. I have done one or two petitions where it was capped at Kshs2 million. So, I definitely agree with the preposition that the money being shown here as payment to lawyers should be audited because it is just a conduit. The lawyers just share this money with governors or their agents. If you look at the total money going to lawyers in those three years, it is almost Kshs200 million. This is about a quarter of the entire amount of the collections which the Government has submitted to the CoG. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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