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"speaker_name": "Kangema, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Clement Kigano",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. If I may continue, the lady is able to soberly dialogue to solve the stalemate in the appointment of the 41 judges. She is able to ensure that there is ratio in the Wambora Case. If you recall, it was said that the courts should, with a lot of circumspection and sparingly, issue orders that may inhibit parliamentary processes and procedures. She confirms that she will avoid also to unnecessarily create bad blood with the other arms of Government. She has a vision to ensure a wide access to justice. She demonstrated this at her previous station in Kitale when she extended judicial services and justice to far flung areas like Lokitaung, Lodwar and Lokichar. She provided mobile facilities for justice. She created that facility. She is ready to avoid and curtail any activism and experimental, new and untried areas of jurisprudence. Particularly, she is ready, able and willing to breathe life to Article 259 of our Constitution. Its relevant passage is that this Constitution shall be construed and interpreted in a manner that promotes good governance. There are four considerations but the last one is crucial— that this Constitution shall be construed and interpreted in a manner that contributes to good governance. On the same Article, she says she is able to ensure that the law will always be speaking. We found that she is able to think outside the box and that she will not be living in a judicial island, utopia or ivory tower. She aspires to do substantial justice other than delving in technical formalities. She will critically think beyond the Maraga Advisory by invoking the principle that the law serves man and humanity and not the reverse; that the law is not static and must be actualised in a manner that contributes to good order. She will be seeking to retain, claim and reclaim lost glory for the Judiciary in line with the principles enunciated by those professional colleagues and others that we know—the principles that were for a long time enunciated by the late Justice Chunilal Madan, the greatest Chief Justice Kenya has had so far. Then, there was another judge—the principles laid by a judge in Uganda in 1966, Sir Udo Udoma. He in 1966, after Obote overthrew Kabaka, said there appeared to be a vacuum in Government. That judge said that there can never be a vacuum in institutions of Government and that because the Obote Government appeared to be in control de facto, he needed to be in control, de jure, of the Government of Uganda. Last, there is Lord Denning who is famous for The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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