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    "id": 643491,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "This is the question in this House. This House will not just be extending terms. I am not polluting the debate but when you vet me and approve that I have been qualified both in integrity--- Look at Judge Ombija. If you look at the Objects and Memorandum of this Bill, you will find that the only reason why they are looking for an extension is because of Judge Ombija. This man was vetted and found not fit to hold office. Judge Ombija went to the High Court and won through to the Court of Appeal. Barely two months ago, the Supreme Court disagreed with the Vetting of Judges and Magistrates Board and Judge Ombija resigned. The Board said: “No my friend, there was a stage when you were to resign and not now.” Hon. Speaker, let us not make this vetting process an exercise in futility. A radical surgery of the Judiciary was done by the Senator of Meru, the then Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs and Justice Aaron Ringera. We thought the Judiciary would be as clean as Caesar’s wife. In 2010, we brought something called “The Vetting of Judges and Magistrates Board”. The mistake we did was that we did not look at the history of the person who heads it, Justice Sharad Rao. He was a prosecutor when there was a lot of injustice in this county; that is during the Kenya African National Union (KANU) Government, when Nyayo Chambers were in place."
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