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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rahim Dawood (",
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    "content": "North Imenti, JP): Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. First of all, I want to thank the Judicial Service Commission for nominating Hon. Justice Lady Martha Koome. I want to sincerely thank the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. I attended their meetings as a friend of the Committee because Justice Lady Martha Koome comes from my constituency. She comes from Kithio Village in Mwitheria Location, which is in North Imenti. I agree with the Vice-Chair when he says that people should watch the video. I was in the sitting that made the approval. Initially, I was scared by the kind of questions that Members were asking her. I said to myself, if this is the way we are going to be vetting people, then nobody will go through. I have been to many vetting sessions when I was in the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. It used to be like rubber-stamping. I was glad about the kind of questions that that the Committee asked her. I took special note of the questions by Hon. Olago Oluoch from Kisumu, who is a Senior Counsel. He asked Justice Martha Koome whether it would prick her conscience to come from the same area with the head of the other arm of the Government – the Executive, which is headed by somebody from the same mountain area. Justice Koome replied very well. She said that she did not choose to be born where she comes from. That should be the case in this country. I also come from North Imenti, and nobody would expect me to be the Member of North Imenti. That is the way we need to change our mindset. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when Justice Martha Koome talked about all the things she would do in the Judiciary in her first 100 days, I believe she is a woman of integrity, a lady who can do what she says. This is because I have dealt with her when she was assisting us in one of the schools she has been through - Mbeu Primary School - and she is a very good mentor. She gives her time and energy because she mentored the children of Mbeu Primary School. Additionally, when we as a country are grappling with the two-thirds gender principle and now we are getting the two-thirds gender principle in the third arm of government, I think that should be the best thing that can happen to this country because it shows we are serious with the gender principle. The President of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), Mr. Nelson Havi, I think is a perennial litigant. He said that he put a stop to Justice Martha Koome... He said that she ruled in different ways and then he said he was representing the LSK. I think he was not representing the LSK. He was just representing himself. The Supreme Court has given its verdict on why the elections should have gone on, on 26th. He held the Erad Supplies case against the National Cereals and Produce Board and I think it was all proven through the Supreme Court that there was a mistake in Nelson Havi's case. Therefore, Hon. Deputy Speaker, when we are talking about Justice Koome she has said that she is willing to work with the other arms of government not to work in exclusion. The Judiciary is one part of the Government and she is ready to talk to the other arms of government so that we can have the judges who have not been sworn in and who have no integrity issues. This is so that 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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