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    "id": 643597,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/643597/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "something from that case, there is no way you can judge properly. It is better you withdraw from that case and give other reasons. Anytime you preside over a case and you have taken something small, you are adding to the mess we have in this country. The rule of law is simple and natural. You just let the natural things take their course. If you commit a crime somewhere and you know it, you will never feel offended if you appear before a judge who discovers what you did, but if you know you did it and the judge rules the other way, you know that the system is not good. It is not enough just to vet and the process continues after that. We have to have the best. No corrupt person should be a judge. That is the essence of a country. If judgement is corrupt, there is no other system that will hold. Nobody will respect judgements at the end of the day. Our country will not go the right way. The credibility of a country also depends on the Judiciary. That is one area we cannot afford to mess up with. Currently, we cannot say that the Judiciary does not have good resources or money to put in place good systems. What it does not have are the right people to be judges. I request those in position, especially the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to know that Kenyans are looking at them. Do they have to create a country where people do not respect the rule of law? Do they want to be respected? Judges have been respected for a long time. If they rule against that, they will be creating anarchy in this country. Mob justice takes place as a validation that the rule of law is failing. If somebody is taken to a court of law and is released, the next time people will not take him to court because justice will be denied. This is the right way. To some extent, we can blame some provisions of our Constitution. For example, somebody robs you, they are taken to a court of law and after three or four days, they are released on bail. People despair. They think that the person has bribed yet it is the Constitution that has given the procedure to deal with that kind of cases. With those, I want to submit and say that we have to change our value systems and personalities in various positions. For us in leadership, let us not interfere with justice in this country. If somebody is convicted, let the rule of law take place. The system should be smooth until that person is judged."
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