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    "id": 700349,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/700349/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2070,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
        "slug": "mohamed-muktar-shidiye"
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    "content": "These other conversations and stories will not help this country. We are going nowhere, but mark-timing and that is the sad story. People fear going to police stations. They would rather do the alternative. For we, the Somalis, in the villages, no matter goes to the police station. In my police station in Modogashe, the matter that goes to the police is the most difficult one. A matter is withdrawn from the police and done in maslaha, an alternative means of dispute resolution, because nothing ends in the justice system. I am not saying I have lost hope in the justice system, but there is difficulty in accessing justice in this country. You would rather have kangaroo court where wazees deal with these matters. They listen to both sides, investigate and dispense justice, but if the matter goes to the police, the victim and the assailant have to pay for the service. At the end of the day, the police become winners and not the common mwananchi . It is time we opened this conversation and discussed corruption because the bottom line in all these issues is corruption. I know of people who have left teaching careers and gone to police service. I asked them why and they told me that there is money there. It is important for us not to take things for granted. We now have a new Chief Justice (CJ). We do not only need radical surgery in the Judiciary, but major reforms. We must reach all the villages through small courts. In the United States of America (USA), I saw they have social groups which discuss matters before they go to court. We need something that is different from the old way of doing things. There must be a paradigm shift in our thinking in terms of providing justice for this country. The old way of doing things might not be as easy as it seems. If you repeat the same thing over the years and there are no improvements and people do not get services or cannot access the P3 Form, it becomes very difficult. We need reforms in the NPS and the Judiciary. The Kenyan people must be told the truth that when services are provided for free by the Government, they must demand for them. There are other people who believe that in any Government office, you have to pay something. People must also be told that there are free services provided by the Government. It takes two to tango and corruption starts with the common mwananchi, who also has to be squarely blamed for it. It is not the institutions, but the reflection of the Kenyan society. Is the society prepared to have good governance and leadership? It also goes up to politics and we have seen it. People come with a lot of money during election campaigns and after that, they do not deliver services."
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