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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, let us not lament. Remember the Chief Justice is on record as indicating… Indeed, this Report indicates that the desire is to establish, at least, a high court station in every county. When Hon. Mohamed Sheikh says that there is only one High Court in Garissa and not a Court of Appeal, maybe, he has not read the Report sufficiently or he has not been following the events. More importantly, if you have heard the cry from the Judiciary — the top— then it behoves you to make sure that you fund the Judiciary appropriately. You cannot claim there is no access to justice in your various counties and, at the same time, when it comes to debating matters to do with funding of the Judiciary, many of you are either out in the streets doing other things... You are not representing the people and yet, you want to come here to lament that the Judiciary is not properly funded. Who is going to fund it if you are not here in the House to debate how much the Judiciary is requesting and whether it is tenable? I should be hearing during that debate the lamentations like the one Hon. Mohamed Sheikh from Wajir South has said that he wants more money allocated to Judiciary because his people desire to have a high court station, at the very least. But during that time, quite interestingly, nobody seems to raise those issues and yet that is the right time. Yes, it is very good that Hon. Cheptumo and his Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs have brought out these issues just to support what the Judiciary has been telling the rest of the country. It is also good, Hon. Mohamed Sheikh, to point out that. But I want to encourage you that when it comes to allocating resources, I also want to hear your equal voice supporting the Judiciary to get more resources in order to make it possible that, at least, in every county, there is a high court station."
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