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"speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are facing an amazingly remarkable situation where during the 20 years in which the country was seeking a new Constitution, the public demanded that all judges be sent home. The country settled for a compromise that all judges and magistrates serving be vetted and that is in our Constitution. It will be recalled that on 21st March, 2011, His Excellency the President assented to the Vetting of Judges and Magistrates Act passed by this House. On the following day, 22nd March, 2011, the law came into force. That law requires that within seven days of the law coming into force, advertisement by the President in consultation with the Prime Minister for the nine member board for vetting this very important officers of our country be advertised notwithstanding the publication of the Gazette Notice, because Parliament in its wisdom restricted this advertisement to only the Kenya Gazette. As it so happened, allow me to think so because I do not have facts, the wider public, particularly our women folk, did not get an opportunity to know that these vacancies were there. Therefore, the closing date for these applications under the wisdom of this House was set for 12th April, 2011. As it happened, the selection committee established under the Act - under the wisdom of Parliament - when it sat down to look at the applications, it so happened that there were not enough people seeking these vacancies. What is more devastating is that Mr. Titus Gateere, the Chairperson of the Public Service Commission stated very clearly in a public advertisement which I will table in a minute that:- âThe Selection Committee wishes to inform the Kenyan people that the requirements of both the Constitution and the Act having not been satisfied, the Selection Committee made the decision not to proceed with the process of considering the applications received, interviewing or selecting candidates for the offices of chairperson-- -â"
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