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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to talk about the mischief. I believe that the mischief that is being dealt with or cured by this Bill is not the one that occurred because of the 2007 elections. We have had these difficulties running for a long time, only that we did not address them in good time. I think it is important that we pay attention to the provisions of this Bill so that we no longer give a person an opportunity to tell the people - as hon. Kajwang has said - that the only way out is to go to the streets or to take a rungu and clobber a person that you have always wanted to. I think it is important that we look at this Bill properly, especially at the Committee Stage, so that we can be able to inform it at that level. We should allow it to move with speed. We do not want to drag it. It is actually for that reason that I do not want to drag the issue of the Committee of Legal Affairs into it because time is of essence. But, ideally, if we had more time, we would have wanted that to happen. It is also important that even as we continue with this process, as leaders from where I stand and from the political platforms, we must build confidence among our own Kenyans and also to the international community, of our own institutions. I do not believe it helps anybody to go out there and talk ill about our Judiciary forever. Certainly, like hon. Karua has said, it may have been having a leaking roof and, maybe, it is still leaking, but that is our Judiciary. We need to encourage one another to work with it, improve it from time to time and make sure that Kenyans have confidence in our own institutions. Once we have no confidence in the institutions, whatever kind of laws that we will come up with, will serve no purpose. It will start with us and it will be us who will make Kenya to move on. We have this statute and, however, good it is going to be, our own utterances must also help to make sure that it is also a statute that Kenyans can believe in."
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