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    "id": 647768,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
        "slug": "ronald-kiprotich-tonui"
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    "content": "How can I confuse my small village? I cannot repair a murram road in my village yet we see massive wastage of taxpayers’ money. This Bill is not good. We should not be talking about it. What the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs should be dealing with is the issue of vetting of judges. We have three arms of Government. Those in the Executive renew their mandate every five years. We, in the Legislature, renew our mandate every five years. The mandate of those in the Judiciary is never renewed up to the age of 70 years. That is why the Judiciary is rotting. Instead of extending the vetting committee for three months, we should be concentrating on having a vetting committee for the Judiciary to renew their mandate every five years. This committee does not need to be permanent; they can be on temporary or part time basis to ensure that there is real justice in the Judiciary. Once we have justice in the Judiciary, we will have fairness everywhere else. We will effectively deal with corruption. The minute we have a corrupt Judiciary we have a big problem. Why do we even have an oversight body for the police? We should have one for the Judiciary. Those are the shortcomings that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs Committee should address. We should leave issues to do with funds to the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, which consists of many competent accountants. We should not have lawyers concentrating on funds simply because the word “Judiciary” is mentioned. That does not mean it belongs to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. When we talk of independence of the Judiciary, we need to be interdependent. Nobody should truly be independent. They need to rely on the other arms. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) generates all these funds and then again people say that there is no link anywhere and Judiciary needs to be independent. It should not be seen in the literal sense. We should relook at this Bill to ensure that shortcomings and challenges in the Judiciary are addressed. We have a Supreme Court in this country. I do not know the number of times they sit. That is a waste of funds in a poor country. There is a Supreme Court of fellows who are idling there. Who accesses what they do? No one monitors them yet they are earning millions of money. They never contribute in a church fundraising. They rarely go to fundraisings to assist their communities yet they have millions and are idling in the Supreme Court. We take care of everyone with the little money we earn. That is really bad. This Bill is highly misplaced. We should reject this Bill because it is not good. We need to refer this Bill to the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade to analyse and understand its import. Why should one arm of Government be special to have its own fund?"
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