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    "content": "The issue of dealing with the Judiciary, we have differing opinions. There are people who feel that perhaps, we do not need any reforms in the Judiciary. There are others who feel that all we need is to increase the number of judges, then our problems will go away. I differ with them because apart from having enough judges, we also want to see them working well. We also want to see them enabled to do their work. We also want to see people of integrity being appointed in the Judiciary and, indeed, we also want to see the process of appointment being streamlined and made more transparent. Indeed, some of us would want to see those jobs being advertised so that the best minds that we have, lawyers that can do that job very well, can get an opportunity to apply for those jobs and then we see the recruitment being done properly so that the best that we have can serve us in our courts. Again, this is an issue that touches on what I began with; the bedrock of the rule of the law for the stability of any country. If the arm of the Judiciary is not working very well, if the police force is not working very well, then you cannot have the rule of law operating very well. A country in that state is on the way to anarchy. These reforms are extremely urgent so that we can lay the groundwork for elections in 2012. I am saying this because we have heard many Kenyans saying we should go for elections. Everywhere you go, Kenyans who are unhappy ask: “Can we have elections quickly? Can we have the Electoral Commission in place so that we can have elections quickly?” However, I would also want to say that the mere act of going to vote is not going to help this country if the institutional framework that is going to give those elections credibility - that will ensure that those elections are free and fair; that will make those elections not only to be free and fair but to be seen to be free and fair so that the citizens can have confidence in the results of those elections - is not in place."
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