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    "id": 773657,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "is imperative that all chairs of committees note so that they can have any engagements with the relevant departments and ministries to engage them within the next days. This is because the Budget and Appropriations Committee will only have another seven days after that to table a report here on the same. Hon. Speaker, if you also allow me, the Leader of the Majority Party has also tabled the Report from the Judiciary. I am sure the chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, Hon. Cheptumo, is here. It is only that Hon. Gladys Shollei happened to have served in the Judiciary as a Registrar. She was whispering behind me. Hon. Speaker, you remember in the 11th Parliament, the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee never had an opportunity to table a report based on the reports that have been submitted on the state of the Judiciary. To many observers in the public, it is not news to the people of Kenya that indeed the state of our Judiciary today is wanting. I have seen very good measures by the Chief Justice to try and transfer a few of the judicial officers around the country but there are pertinent issues within the Judiciary that need to be addressed. I hope the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, with this first report in the 12th Parliament, will be able to table a report that members can interrogate the actual state of our judicial process in this country. I see Hon. Olago Aluoch is the only Member donning the ribbons people were donning yesterday. Maybe others may have forgotten. It points to issues that many Kenyans are concerned about the state of our judicial system. I hope Hon. Cheptumo and his committee will not only consider this Report from the Judiciary but also allow members to interrogate the actual state of that Judiciary by tabling a report here that Members can debate. We can even invite members of the public to give their views in line with the constitutional provision of public participation on the state of the Judiciary, which I have a big problem with. Thank you."
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