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"speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, equality of opportunity in matters of employment, the right to freedom of speech and expression, the right of assembly, the right to association are all that we want the Supreme Court to uphold. All the three arms of Government are the product of our Constitution, and our own basic laws; their functions are inter-related. They act as checks and balances. At any given time each branch of this Government will confine itself to its authority, and at no time will one branch usurp the powers o f the other. We look at the Supreme Court as the final court that will be above the current Court of Appeal. As the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs has said under Article 14---. Previously, many Kenyans suffered from very poor judgments delivered by judges of the High Court and Court of Appeal. I think this Supreme Court that we are going to establish will do many things in terms of review of judgments made by judges and the lower courts. I think for now, it is important that as we face the vetting of judges and magistrates, and as we reform the Judiciary through the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and all other measures within that system, the Supreme Court will begin its work by looking at the judgments even by the Judicial Service Commission. We feel that more than ever before, with new electoral laws, voting and voter education systems in place, at no time in the history of this country will Kenyans fight and refuse to go to court, and say; âwe have no faith in the courts, but we have faith in the street demonstrations and mass actionâ."
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