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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I come to the end of my brief submission, I also want to urge that the ongoing process of vetting of judges and magistrates to be faster, fair and to avoid causing unnecessary humiliation and agony. I have seen known conmen - I say this very guardedly because I have practised law in this country for a long time - who mill around the courts of law day and night. They are the ones now turning up, labeling judges that they are this or that. But the vetting body has no capacity to scrutinize the character of the complainants as much as they are scrutinizing the character of the judge. They need to be empowered to scrutinize those characters who are complaining about judges. We know once you are in a position of authority, there are so many people out there who may just hate your looks. There are people out there, just because you made an honest and just decision, but because it did not favour them, they think you are wrong and you are bad. These crooks have no shame. They will swear an affidavit and place it before a panel, labeling a judge whatever name they want to label him. But when you scrutinize it, you will find that it has no substance. So, I would want to suggest that the vetting panel, for the integrity of the people they are vetting, should also have a private session to scrutinize the evidence before they expose it to the public to protect some reputation. Because at the end of the day, when a judge who has served this country, whatever the quality of the service for the last 30 years, leaves that Bench, he still has a family, friends and a society to live in. I know one judge who has been sent away from the Court of Appeal, I can swear by the Bible that judge has never been accused of taking a bribe. Not even once. I have practised law here for the last over 30 years. We know who is on the take and we know who is not. But some crooks just come and say “the judge did this or that” because the judge made a ruling that was against him. We need to find a way of balancing this, so that we can protect reputations. Without the bad apples, there is no doubt that when you make it a free-for-all, then you know very well that you are using wrong therapies to cure the malady."
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