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    "id": 972163,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/972163/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": "it to be treated as an independent arm and also as an important arm in this Republic. The Judiciary has a lot of work to do. This work needs to be done in record time. They have specialised in a specific business which everybody cannot do: to provide justice to Kenyans. In a growing economy like ours, there are need demands growing, devious is growing, and we need to be looking at how we should grow the budget of an independent office like this one, so that it will be able to attend to the increasing demands. It is amazing how we may find or realise that there is no correspondence between the expected growth and the levels of funding to the Judiciary. It is also amazing that the Judiciary has to be put on a begging mission most of the time. Every time, we find the CJ talking to the nation, we always expect that he will be complaining that something is not going right or he is not being treated with the due dignity of the office that he holds. One may wonder, if we want an independent and efficient justice system that helps Kenyans to grow as an economy, then why should we not adequately fund the justice system? We have been treated to the work plan of the Judiciary. They want to improve the courtrooms, build more court houses, improve on the infrastructure and digitise. They are seeking to improve the flow of information. They also want to improve on the speed with which they handle cases. Unfortunately, the underfunding aspect has made it impossible for them to improve in any of these areas. Therefore, instead of having increased efficiency in dealing with the businesses at the Judiciary, we have decreased it and this is deliberate. This is the case and yet we are in a country that is struggling in dealing with corruption, struggling with the backlog of cases that have been awaiting determination for too long and we are a country that may not deal with cases for up to ten years."
}