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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, while we beseech the House to approve these names, I must say that, as a country, we must celebrate the reforms taking place in the judicial system. I believe that 28 new Judges of the High Court were today sworn in as part of the process of reform. Recently, this House passed a law which allowed complete independence of the Judiciary as far as finances are concerned. Recently, we witnessed the process under which the Chief Justice, the Deputy Chief Justice and the Supreme Court Judges were appointed, and this House approved the names of the Chief Justice and the Deputy Chief Justice. So, if we have completely human resource in the Judiciary; if we have completely new infrastructure, in terms of the Judicial Service Commission and the Supreme Court; if we have all judges and magistrates vetted through an open, transparent and fair process; if we are going to have this new Judiciary, surely, as a county and Parliament, we must give that institution the benefit of doubt and, indeed, the support they will deserve as the Judiciary, so that people in the country, elsewhere, and in this House will have the trust, confidence, integrity and honour in that institution, and so that tomorrow, nobody will have the excuse, or choice, to say: “I will not go before to the Judiciary” or “I may not be able to go before the Judiciary because I fear that this Judiciary is not clean”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have gone through serious reforms and, we, as a country, must see the benefits of those reforms. We must also start celebrating the benefits of those reforms. Earlier, in the House, we had the issue of mistrust, which is as a result of our history. It is as a result of decades of disappointment by national institutions. So, people’s confidence had been shuttered; but time has come for those institutions to be given the benefit of doubt, the trust and the confidence of the people. I will ask my able and very experienced Vice-Chairlady to second the Motion. With those remarks, I beg to move."
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