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    "id": 643504,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/643504/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "exercise concludes, the trust Kenyans have in the Judiciary, judicial officers, magistrates and judges will be higher than it was at the beginning of the vetting exercise. Hon. Speaker, I am an officer of the court as you are yourself. As an officer of the court, I appear in court once in a while. I can confirm that the challenges we have experienced before remain to a very large extent. We should give this Board an extension so that it can conclude its responsibility. We should also scrutinise its performance. My colleague from Ol Jorok Constituency, Hon. Waiganjo was wondering that after the mandate of this Board has expired, what we do with judicial officers entering the service. He should know this was a transitional mechanism and this exercise is not a permanent process. It is part of transitional justice and crossing the Rubicon from the old order where we had serious trust deficit in the Judiciary to the new constitutional dispensation. As we cross over to this new order, we should not do so with so much baggage of the temporary processes we put in place to help us transit. We should invest in permanent institutions including the JSC that must be capacitated to ensure that rogue characters do not pass the trapdoor to enter the judicial service. We should not bother about these temporary processes and I have serious doubts whether these temporary processes have served the very high ends that we encapsulated in the Constitution. We should think about how we can strengthen institutions such as the JSC and the Public Service Commission (PSC) to ensure that the persons who ultimately enter service are of high moral character, high training and beyond reproach like Caesar’s wife."
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