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    "id": 937822,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/937822/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 827,
        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Bill because the normal judicial process, where one has to go to court, is not available in most parts of this country. In my county, it is only Moyale and Marsabit which have courts, yet the county is the largest in the country. We have the far-flung areas which are about 500-600 Kilometres from Marsabit town, where the court is. We have different communities which have been using the traditional dispute resolution mechanisms to sort out disputes, once they occur. What we are doing here is that we are creating legislation to incorporate our traditional dispute resolution mechanisms into the law, so that it becomes officially a system where when a dispute occurs at the village level, where you do not think you must go the police or that it should be taken all the way to the courts that are available 500-600 kilometres away, you resort to ADR. Recently the Judiciary has started the mobile courts; but from the recent statement of the Chief Justice, it shows that they have already been crippled due to lack of financial resources."
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