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    "id": 971077,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/971077/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I congratulate the Committee for a job well-done. I have gone through this Report. One of the things that have been addressed in this Report in Chapter 2 has been the backlog of cases. A total of 52,352 cases have taken more than 10 years to be concluded. That means that 52,000 Kenyans have been waiting for justice to be served to them and this has not happened for 10 years. Majority of the backlog cases - 63 per cent of them - are said to lie with the Magistrates’ Courts. The Committee recommends that the mandate of those judges is increased so that the backlog of cases in the Magistrates’ Courts is improved. Kenya only has 1,200 magistrates with a population of around 45 million Kenyans. A country like Germany has 20,000 judges with a population of 80 million people. In as much as we would like to blame the Judiciary for the delay in conclusion of those cases, the human The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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