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    "content": "Secondly, on the issue of the TSC, this matter is very clear. The Attorney-Gneral is very competent and I think he is one of the best Attorney-Generals this country has ever had except when he became amicus curie in the famous Supreme Court case. That is the only time when we realised that he is a bit shaky but we know he is a man of integrity. He is a man who knows the laws of this country very well. He has already advised the Government. If you look at the letter that he wrote to Mr. Lengoiboni and copied to Francis Kimemia and Godia, the former PS for Education, in point number eight he said: “In view of the above, I am of the considered opinion that as regards to the existing vacancies for which a selection process has already been initiated, it behooves the President to draw fresh names of the nominees from the list that has been prepared by the selection panel.” So, this issue of a new advertisement and putting up of a new selection panel is unconstitutional. It is against the law. It is unacceptable and this House must put it to a stop because already there are names that have been forwarded. If some have been rejected, we expected the President to go back to the previous list and select more names from the list that already exists. I do not think it is in order for advertisement of vacancies. The law does not allow that and as we are speaking now, the TSC has only one commissioner and constitutionally a commission must have a minimum of three commissioners. It is high time the President appoints two more people from that list and submits those names to Parliament for approval as has been advised by the able Attorney- General of this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the third issue of the ICC, as you know the ICC is a very thorny issue for this country and let us not lie to each other. It is us who took ourselves to the ICC. We had the opportunity to form a local tribunal through this House so that those cases could be heard and determined in this country but we said: “Do not be vague, go to Hague.” Now, that is the issue that is haunting us up to today. The issue of whether we shall get justice at the ICC is another matter but it is us who took"
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