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    "id": 974099,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13491,
        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "wooden court house at the headquarters in Marimanti. It has never been completed, and it has never been used. Whenever I meet the Judiciary or whenever I meet the CJ, I muse that he made a provision for fodder for termites and ants because that is what is happening. It is lots of money that possibly is going to waste. The cited reason is that there is no money to complete. We would also want to deal with mobile courts. I also have a mobile court that serves from Marimanti to a place called Kathangachini, 45 kilometres away. There is no way justice can be dispensed when that court is mobile only once a week. Sincerely, nothing much can be done. Again, we need to look at this. The other problem was title documents for the courts. It is encouraged that courts have titles. The Judiciary must be the custodian of its property and land. We have had instances where court land is grabbed and the Judiciary goes to fight, possibly fighting even in its own courts. Again, this cannot be encouraged. We must also say that there must be expeditious disposal of cases once we give the Judiciary the resources. The Chairman has elaborated very well that what we consume from the Judiciary is not visible. It is only inherent. It is only felt. The consumer of justice is the only person who knows the value of that justice. Therefore, we need to see cases moving fast so that we do not go to an Environment and Land Court today to take a hearing date and we are giving a date in September next year. Sincerely, I do not think any proper court dispensing justice can give a date today sometime next year. This is not expeditious, and it should not be encouraged. Two, there must be means and ways of ensuring that there is no corruption in our courts. We must fight corruption to ensure that judges are cleaner than Caesar’s wife. The justice they dispense is what everybody believes in. Justice that is obtained through fraud, through corruption or any other means that is extrajudicial is not justice. It cannot be trusted by anybody. Therefore, that erodes the confidence in our courts. With those remarks, I support that this House notes the two Reports. I also support that we adopt the Reports. I second."
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