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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "the one of Judge Ombija were still pending. The review motions and applications were pending the termination. Let me assure Hon. Members here that the Board assured us that the terminations on those review applications were also already done. So, we made a decision that we would, therefore, bend back so that the good work that the Board has done can be consolidated, archived, documented and tabled before this House for perpetuity and for reference by not only Kenyans, but other jurisdictions which are already borrowing from our experiences here. The composition of the Board had judges and former Chief Justices from Tanzania, Uganda and outside Africa. It had people who have a very good reputation worldwide. I can report to this House that the experiences and good work of this Board is already being copied by those countries. South Africa, Swaziland and most of those countries have borrowed our experience, particularly on the information of the Board on what was happening here. Let me repeat what Hon. Waiganjo was coming to. If we had a properly functioning Judicial Service Commission (JSC), there would be no problem. If we had a properly functioning JSC, we would not be in the problem of vetting and thinking what to do next. The problem Hon. Members must begin thinking about is how we will structure the composition of JSC, so that we can have integrity in the Judiciary; have a Judiciary that is independent and which you do not fear if a judge has been bribed or spoken to when we go before him or her. That is where the problem is."
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