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    "id": 290441,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise in support of this Bill. But I have a few points that I would like to depart from the Mover and the Seconder. In the Bill for vetting of judges, it is necessary that we extend time. But we cannot give the board a blank cheque on time. I want to adopt what Judge Kriegler of the Kriegler Commission once said. That a meeting lasts as long as the time assigned to it. If we do not allocate a specific time to that vetting board, they will make a career, permanent and pensionable, out of the vetting of judges. Although I agree that, maybe, the time we allocated was not enough, we must also consider the following: Is it for the benefit of the nation to have judicial officials in a state of anxiety for too long? You are waiting to be vetted and you continue to hear cases. Is your mind directed to the cases or to the vetting process? I think that we must be time-bound. We should add no more than six months. This country cannot be in a transition forever. We want the vetting of judges and judicial officers to be completed. But we want the Vetting Board to organize their work in a way that is helpful to Kenyans. Even before a court of law, there are cases you dismiss summarily without hearing. They should be able to see if the allegations---- There are those which are not supported by any evidence, which can be dismissed summarily. But if they are entertained indiscriminately, then even if we give them ten years, they may never finish. So, I am suggesting that strictly six months and no more."
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