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    "content": "have tried to stop me from saying good things about them. But we must talk about this process. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is good to know that the term of this Board needs to be extended. I want to say that I will oppose that bit. Why? Unless we change the Act, so that they stop victimising Kenyans, I will not support it. This is what I thought would happen. This House has a duty to empower the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, so that the weaknesses that we are experiencing can be taken care of in law. What is somebody trying to do with the Budget? Somebody is trying to deny Tobiko some of the money he has requested, so that we can continue being lawless, as a country, and so that the prosecution can be killed. We will never allow it. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions must be strengthened. This House must give it money. This county did not anticipate that this thing called “JMVB” would take the victimisation approach. We must reject this, as a country. We may have made a mistake, but we cannot leave the mistake to continue being repeated. So, I want to tell this House that if the request to extend their term comes, we will reject it. Let us find a different solution to the problem. Let me go further and tell you how victimisation is happening. There is a group of Kenyans on the streets of Nairobi, who believe that they own the Judiciary. They have penetrated the JMVB. So, if you are a woman and you did not succumb to their wishes, you go. I am talking about things which judges and magistrates have told me. Hon. Members may appreciate why out of the 16 dismissed judges, only five are men. Men meet in bars, churches and in other places, but when it comes to women, we want to meet them differently. We will not agree. We know them. It is only that the rules of this House do not allow us to name them without adequate evidence but we know them. We will name them at funeral gatherings. We know what they are doing. It is wrong to the women of Kenya. I said this about women serving in the Traffic Department of the National Police Service when I brought amendments to the Traffic Act. In order for them to get there, their panties must drop. We said that was wrong. It is also wrong in the case of JMVB. It is also wrong in the corridors of power, where some people believe that they are more powerful than the rest of us. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me jog your memory a bit. Ten years ago, one Kiraitu Murungi was the Minister for Justice and Legal Affairs. He woke up one morning and said that he was cleaning up the Judiciary and, in the process, Justice Chunga and Justice Oguku went. He just used his pen to victimise people whose names or faces he did not like and stopped there. So many Kenyans had to leave their professions and lose their livelihoods because one Minister did not like them. We cannot go that direction, as a country. I was here during the constitutional review process. Our intention in providing for the establishment of the JMVB was to clean up the Judiciary, and not to fire judicial officers. We wanted to change their modus operandi . We did not mean to change faces in the Judiciary. We wanted to have them act under new laws. After all, a half of this county does not believe in the so-called “new judges”. Look at the Supreme Court. We said “Let us not allow the old judges to sit on the Supreme Court,” but already a half of the country"
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