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    "id": 287173,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 148,
        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The Kenya School of Law Bill be now read a Second Time. I wish to thank all those who have contributed to this Bill, particularly my predecessor who went through the process of preparing this Bill. I would like to thank Mr. Kulundu who is currently heading the School of Law. He is a very able man and a man as brilliant as his late brother Dr. Kulundu who was a very able Minister and a good friend. May the good Lord rest his soul in eternal peace! As we move forward in this year of reforms, even as we reform the Judiciary, vet the judges and magistrates and clean up the Judiciary, we will not have completed the process unless we also look at the quality of lawyers; that is the men and women who will appear before the judges and the magistrates that we are vetting. Those are the lawyers that we are training. The quality of training is a very vital part of ensuring that we deliver services; world class justice to Kenyans in the new constitutional dispensation. This is possible if we maintain high standards of training. For a long time, the University of Nairobi was the only one that had the Law Faculty in this country. I do recall that my late brother, Mike, was a lecturer at the university in the 1970s. He told me that among the most brilliant students he taught was one James Aggrey Bob Orengo. Riaga Omollo was also his student at the university and he believed that some of the best lawyers ever trained were Kenyans. But with time---"
}