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    "id": 647707,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/647707/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
        "slug": "ababu-namwamba"
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    "content": "This is a Fund that will be controlled or administered by the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary as the Accounting Officer. It will facilitate the administrative expenses of the Judiciary. It will basically give the Judiciary administrative wherewithal. Today, we are in the midst of drastic and far-reaching reforms in the Judiciary. Indeed, one of the key intentions of our new constitutional dispensation is to have a Judiciary that is independent, responsive to the challenges of our nation, a defender and protector of justice and the rule of law. All those good and lofty objectives and vision will be very well served by having a fund that will facilitate the Judiciary to undertake its activities independent of the JSC. We know that independence in funding alone is not sufficient to grant institution autonomy. This institution is an example of an institution that has had financial autonomy for a while. Parliament budgets and oversees the operation of Government, but we still suffer a lot of control, as it were, or interference from the Executive. Therefore, my message to the Judiciary is that even as you anticipate to have this Fund that will grant the much desired autonomy, you must continue to jealously guard the principles of independence of the Judiciary and avoid the interferences even from within, as has been the case previously by the JSC. It has been feared that the JSC has sort of gone beyond the mandate that was anticipated by the Constitution and interfered with the operations of the Judiciary. We are giving the Judiciary the freedom to dispense justice in the style that we have always dreamt of and that the framers of this Constitution and many Kenyans had hoped for. We want to see a Judiciary that delivers justice in a manner that is speedy and engenders confidence among the people. 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."
}