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    "id": 647754,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "registrar somewhere in Busia to procure. Like someone said, why would they want to procure tea and cleaning services for staff in Busia, for example, in Nairobi? Are there no cleaners in Busia? Why not allow Busia people to do the cleaning? Why would they want to centralize cleaning services for the Judiciary; like having staff from Nairobi going to clean in Bungoma? Allow the person down there to procure at least for cleaning and provision of sugar. That is why we are allowing the Registrar to authorise certain officers to incur expenditure. It helps. That is why in this Session again, we have passed three very important Bills. We passed a law to organize the High Court, Magistrates’ Court and Court of Appeal in this year. When these courts are organized that way, each level will have some financial autonomy. The Registrar’s role just becomes coordinating work so that at every level there will be some semblance of independence to ensure that justice is delivered. Then they will assess which courts are doing well and which ones are not. When you allocate human resource not everyone will work at optimal levels. It enables you to know who to transfer and who does best where. It is important to know how much they have at their disposal at any one point in time. Going forward, we do not want to see a sparkling clean court in Nairobi with good parking and toilets and in another part of the country people are using buckets. People are taken to court and are held up in terrible cells like we saw the other day in photos. This fund will ensure that planning is done to ensure that all the courts in the country are the same within a specified time. The other thing that we have seen and happens a lot is that donors always want to give money to the Judiciary, because justice is very important. If donors are going to give money to the Judiciary, we do not want a situation where we are told there is an account opened in a bank in Kiambu or in Syokimau. The donor or development partners’ money should be put in this Fund."
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