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    "id": 366388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this report with one caution that we need to be careful, as a country, when we are vetting these foreign judges, so that we do not import corruption instead of fighting it. We need to be very aware that this is a sovereign and independent country. We need to have faith in our judicial system. We do not need judges from outside to come and vet our people. It is very hard to vet somebody from outside the country. Anybody can write and send a CV. If you are just vetting somebody by looking at their CV, you do not get a clear indication of who you are vetting. Maybe we are vetting people who do not even exist. There are crooks in the streets of Nairobi who can write CVs and send them to you. So, we need to have a clear indication of whom we are vetting. If we are going to have foreigners to help us to vet our judges and Magistrates, we need to send committee hon. Members to those countries, so that they can see those people and interview them face to face and see whether they are competent, so that we can have people who are capable of doing the job. We should not bring people here who will come and victimize our people, because they are foreigners. Women were victimized and that was the source of the problem that we are going through right now. We need to take this seriously, and if we do not, it is going to make our country look bad. We are struggling with the issue of the ICC because we went there looking for justice, yet we can do justice in this country. We do not need foreigners to come here and tell us what to do. We need to be strong as a sovereign country, so that we do not import corruption from other countries. I support the report."
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