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    "id": 643550,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/643550/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F.I. Ali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fatuma Ibrahim Ali",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for allowing me to speak on this. I support this Bill. It is necessary to extend the period of the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board. We need to appreciate that the Board has done remarkable work despite the challenges. We need to appreciate that the Board is the first to be established globally. It will be a practice that will be referred to in the context of Kenya. It was new and members had to go through a lot of processes in terms of learning and understanding many things. We also need to appreciate that the membership of the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board included international actors and that has delayed some of its work. Sometimes, its members could not do their work because of the requirements of the international membership. We also need to appreciate that the vetting of judges and magistrate was a very intensive and elaborate process, which allowed even the civilians to interact daily with the judges and magistrates to give complaints or information. We need to appreciate the work of the Board. As a member of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, we interacted with them and they have done extremely good work. They have vetted all the judges and magistrates. But there are some appeals, which is natural in all circumstances that are pending. They have done a lot of documentation on this process and they have done very interesting reports regarding the vetting of magistrates and judges. We need to appreciate that they need 90 days. The cost is not there because they will use the money they have within their allocation .They are not seeking any additional money for the extension of 90 days. But, definitely, they will use their existing money for the work to be completed on time. What was very impressive in terms of persuading our committee was that they have huge documents which they need to archive. We need to appreciate that because vetting of judges and magistrates is the first in this country and globally. It has a lot of sensitive documents which need to be archived, safeguarded, stored and carefully handed over to institutions. Three months is not too much. It is a short period. When you compare the value addition of extending 90 days to the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board, it is valuable and not a waste. It is something that will enable them to publicly and transparently do a clearer and smoother handing over, documentation and archiving."
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