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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, like other contributors, I wish to say that the reason we are having a supreme court is to ensure that we inspire confidence in the judiciary. We come from a background, especially from the last elections and may be even previously, where it was difficult to serve a sitting President. We scaled it up to where an important section of this society decided that, in an election dispute/petition, which is well pursued in Clause 12, that they had no confidence in the Judiciary. Once citizens start having no confidence in the institutions of the Republic, then you really have chaos and anarchy. I want to believe that besides this Bill, which should be a starting point for inspiring confidence, that we are actually building that confidence through practice. So, it is important that the judges that we appoint to the Supreme Court, are judges of high integrity and high moral standing in the society. Justice cannot become another commodity being sold to the highest bidder, especially in a perfect market like ours, where the goodies go to the highest bidder. But justice must be a matter of the truth. Justice must be a matter of doing what is right. Justice must be a matter of standing up to the mighty, when they have gone wrong."
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