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    "id": 971085,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to support this Report and say a few things. This Report points out the fact that cases take so long because resources are not adequate for the Judiciary, among other things. I would like to dwell on two of the recommendations. One, just like my learned friend, Senior Counsel Otiende said, we cannot really determine how long judges should take on cases. But more importantly, justice delayed is justice denied. Many times, cases to do with land and environmental issues in this country take very long to be disposed of. Consequently, the families affected by the matters relating to such cases suffer as they wait for a judge to make a determination. So, they live like squatters on the disputed land. They cannot make any investment; they cannot take loans nor do anything on the property they sit on because the case goes on for five to eight years. Sometimes the patriarch or the matriarch of the family passes on and then we have another case of succession on the same property. We have long unwinding cases, especially at the environmental and land courts. The Judicial Service Commission needs to look at what they can do to ensure that land cases are disposed with as soon as possible. I have in mind the court in Malindi. Kilifi County has some of the historical injustice cases on land, squatters as well as cases of people who took land from the natives. These cases have kept on dragging forever. There is a correlation between the period of time these cases have lasted in court and the poverty levels of the natives in Kilifi County. When 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."
}