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    "id": 972094,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/972094/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe South, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Paul Mwirigi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1574,
        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon.Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support the Report. The Judiciary is one of the arms of the Government. When Judiciary is underfunded, we cannot expect much in the delivery of services. That is why last year, the Chief Justice lamented a lot about lack of funds for the Judiciary. This annual Report, therefore, helps us to know the progress of our courts and the extent they have gone with their work. When the Judiciary is not funded, recruiting new judges to tackle the backlog of cases is impossible. That is why most cases take years in courts without being completed and our people, whom we represent, suffer a lot. When people want justice, they run to courts. However, the magistrates who are supposed to be working there are not funded and that is why most cases are still pending. Digitisation of information in our courts cannot take effect or cannot be effected because there are no funds to do the work. In my constituency, the headquarters of Nyambene, a court is proposed to be built, but up to now no work has started because there is no money. Therefore, it is the right time as legislators to give priority to the Judiciary so that, at least, they can have funding. It will enable them to tackle cases of corruption and nobody can get compromised. If, for example, you are tackling a case of a person who has stolen Kshs1 billion or more, and you have never earned such money, when the accused person approaches you to tackle the case in his favour, you would easily do so. We will, therefore, never get justice in this country. We will be unable to fight corruption because the arms that are supposed to be fighting corruption and prosecuting the alleged corrupt people are not getting anything."
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