{"id":42784,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/42784/?format=json","text_counter":417,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Mwatela","speaker_title":"The Assistant Minister for Education","speaker":{"id":103,"legal_name":"Andrew Calist Mwatela","slug":"andrew-mwatela"},"content":"Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of the persons who are going to be appointed Judges of the Supreme Court, I hope that members of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) are not only going to look at the candidates’ paper qualifications. I am calling them “paper qualifications” because as much as I respect the very good qualifications of the Minister, who had a First Class degree--- On top of that, somebody should have demonstrated, either as a practising lawyer or as a Judge, that he was really above board. Let us not just look at whether one holds a PhD or not. We should consider whether he makes decisions that are above board, so that we can get the correct people to serve as Judges of the Supreme Court."}