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    "id": 1073340,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rabai, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Mwamkale",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamoti Mwamkale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for according me time to contribute to this. I am a member of this Committee and I had an opportunity of hearing Lady Justice Koome presenting herself to this Committee. I do rise for and support the approval of this Report. When she appeared before our Committee, Lady Justice Koome confirmed to the Committee that she was going to be guided by the Constitution of Kenya and she will not take instructions from any other place other than the Constitution of Kenya. It also came out in her vision that she would protect the rights of citizens as enshrined in Chapter Four of the Constitution 2010. She did inform us that she was part and parcel of this chapter. She played a big role when she was at FIDA and that she will defend the Constitution at all costs. However, as it has been mentioned, when questions were put to her, she confirmed to us and to the Republic that she believes that judges are not saints. She said it clearly that judges are not saints and they sometimes misinterpret the law and that when the law is misinterpreted, it is normally addressed in the appeals. She said she believes that any wrong-doing of a judge can be rectified in an appeal. So, this is a lady who has her vision well cut out. By approving the appointment of Lady Justice Koome, as a country, we will be taking the gender principle to the higher level because it will not only be effected in the National Assembly or wherever else, but at the three arms of the Government. For once, we will have one arm of the Government being led by a lady and I think as a Republic, we will have put our face in the global map in as far as the gender principle is concerned. I do urge the House to approve this lady because even the way she committed herself to relate well, she is even going to unlock the impasse of the 41 judges who have been in the waiting list."
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