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    "id": 49495,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second this important Motion. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, you know when I was the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, I tried to vet the judges and magistrates without a law under what we called the “radical surgery” and I actually sent many of them home. I have been very heavily criticized for that exercise. I have nothing to regret about it because they said corruption in the Judiciary had become like the weather that everybody is talking about, but nobody is doing anything about it. So, I decided to do something about it but now we have a structured way of vetting our Judiciary. Indeed, I feel that we should have passed this law even before this Chief Justice is appointed because we are likely to have a case where a Chief Justice is not going to be vetted. We are going to appoint a Chief Justice who has not been vetted through this process. Constitutional business is important and urgent business for this House. That is why there is that clause in the Constitution which actually threatens and gives powers to the Supreme Court to dissolve Parliament if we are not able to pass these laws. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, hon. Abdikadir, the chairman of Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC), came here the other day with a litany of complaints about the number of Bills that we should have passed which we have not passed. The 112 days which the Minister is talking about, many of them are Sundays, Saturdays and Fridays when we will not be working. So I think time has come for us to accelerate the speed with which we pass the laws to implement the new Constitution. One way of doing so is by reducing these days. I do not think by waiting for the remaining ten days there will be any change that is going to take place. So, I wish to very sincerely second this Motion."
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