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    "id": 1067922,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1067922/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "Let us not be people who forget what we have done. If vetting of PSs and ministers was helping this country, why are we complaining about the corruption malpractices that are happening now? We should have vetted the right people to go to the right offices. Let us not use avenues that have no value to mutilate the Constitution. People are talking about eroding the independence of the Judiciary. It is true that I am not a lawyer and I have not gone to a law school, but some of these problems that we are suffering from were created by lawyers who wrote for us the Constitution. The winner takes it all and the two-thirds gender rule were written by lawyers in the Committee of Experts and not by laymen like me who have not stepped in a school of law. On the Judiciary, they are saying that we are eroding its independence. How? People do not know what Kenyans are going through. Kenyans appear before a Magistrate Court and their judgement is delayed. There is corruption. They are given wrong judgements and they have no avenue to complain to. Why do we want to make the life of peasant farmers of this country who have been deprived of their land, difficult? As a legislative House, why can we not give them an avenue to go and complain to the ombudsman who will take their complaints to the Judicial Service Commission? The ombudsman is not going to charge or form a tribunal. The lies that are being propagated must stop. If you have a political problem, solve it politically. Let us face each other politically out there, but the Bill has got nothing to do with all those issues that have been raised. For example, there are lawyers that I have been consulting of late, namely, Hon. T.J. Kajwang’ and Hon. Kaluma, and they told me of an Article in the Constitution that says that the function of the JSC in terms of disciplining judicial officers has stopped only at the magistrate level. The JSC has no power to discipline any Judge. They cannot hold any judge accountable on their judgements. The day they are employing judges as the JSC, they hold them to account for all the judgements they made when they interview them just like what we watched when they were interviewing Justice William Ouko. They were talking about cases…"
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