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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Bill. The first question we should ask ourselves is: Why the vetting in the first place? The Commissions that were set up after the troubles we had after the last general elections suggested that the biggest problem that caused the biggest strike in this country was lack of confidence in the Judiciary. If there was public confidence in the Judiciary, the people who felt aggrieved probably would have gone to the court, which is very near the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) at that time. But they felt that they would not get justice in that court. What were the reasons? The reason and biggest problem was the manner in which our judges were nominated and appointed to their offices. The Judicial Service Commission that was supposed to advise the President in the appointment of judges was itself quite moribund. In fact, I am not so sure that they participated in hunting for, interviewing and appointing those Judges. I know that some judges were at one time robbed and ready to go to the State House for swearing in, but later on, after waiting somewhere in State House, they came back unsworn. The reason is that some people in the Government were very unhappy in the manner in which they had been selected. This means that there was no proper way of selecting those judges. I can tell you that the Judicial Service Commission, even if it worked, had the following people: There was the Chief Justice, who was an appointee of the President; two other judges, who were also appointees of the President; the Attorney-General, who until now is an appointee of the President and the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, who was also an appointee of the President. So, actually, it was a Presidential Commission and consequently, it did what the President wanted them to do. If they did not comply, of course, the President would still continue and appoint, and there is nowhere you would go, because the Constitution did not say that the President had to consult the Judicial Service Commission in the first place."
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