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"content": "confirmed by the President. This House has risen to the occasion and particularly â and I stated yesterday â all the three are names of Kenyans who come from backgrounds that you could say are minority in many ways. The Chief Justice who has now been confirmed by the President is a strong proponent of minority rights. The Deputy Chief Justice is a lady and Tobiko comes from a minority tribe. This House must never be used---. I saw a very strong temptation by the civil society to use this House to become a slaughter house for minority rights. This House cannot be used to slaughter the minority rights in this country. The House has stood firm. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, all constitutions are meant to protect minorities. There is no constitution in the world that does not do that. The basis of a constitutional dispensation is to protect minority rights. I am glad that this House has risen to the occasion. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I conclude, I want to say that the process that was used by the Constitutional Implementation and Oversight Committee (CIOC) of inviting everybody to appear before live television cameras and implicate Kenyans was wrong. The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was more prudent because they had a vetting within a vetting. Therefore, we learnt from it and I want to congratulate the House for standing firm. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support."
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