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    "id": 65479,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang’",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for this opportunity. First and foremost, we have run the Judiciary for the last almost 50 years without a Judicial Service Act. We have run the Judiciary without rules on how to manage it. We have run the Judiciary on the whims of whoever is chosen by some luck to be the Chief Justice, and whoever has been chosen to be the Registrar. This has been done without any rules. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is a pity that we have done that. In fact, we are very lucky that we have run the Judiciary without rules for 50 years and it has been running, anyway. I do not know whether it has been running forward or backwards. However, I think most of the people in this country believe that we have not been running forward. In fact, I think that is the reason we have talked of radical surgeries, reforming the Judiciary and now we are attempting to have a Judicial Service Act in place, so that the Judiciary can run on some rules. There was a time when you could walk into the Office of the Chief Justice at anytime, especially when they were wazungus and you were listened to. In fact, if you had an application which you insisted that you wanted the Chief Justice to hear, the Chief Justice would gladly listen to you anytime. Incidentally, the Chief Justice would even give you tea, something which you rarely got. The current Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya, who is retiring in March--- If you tried to make an appointment to see the Chief Justice, first of all, you would wait for ages. If you wrote to the Chief Justice to get an appointment, you would not be replied to. If you tried to knock the door of the Chief Justice, the policemen would stop you. I am saying that we have been running the Judiciary without rules and certain standards of how they manage this very important institution."
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