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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have been told that judges would be very shy to apply. In fact, I want to agree with hon. Maina on this. I have been told that judges will be very shy to apply for any position. What if you apply and an interview were done and then there was a finding that you did not qualify. How do you go back and sit on the bench because many of the people who will be appearing before you will say:- “This one could not make it”? How do you sit there? It is very embarrassing for them. I think as much as we need a panel that will do this in a transparent manner, it is very demeaning for a judge to apply for a job and not get it. In fact, I get the feeling that most of the judicial officers, if they are asked to apply for the job of the Chief Justice, they will not apply. Sometimes, the ones who will not apply are the best. So, we must find a mechanism of head hunting and interviewing them in private. This idea of bringing a judge to interview him on live television and asking him about his girlfriends and children is not good for the country. If you still want him to be a judge. I think we will make amendments. In some of these things, we must look at the kind person we want to be there and the prestige of that office and the respect people give to that office. That is why you cannot interview a President. Of course, you can say as many things about him. He will always deny. So, we cannot interview the President of the Republic of Kenya. He will just win an election. However, if you are to bring somebody here, that you want to choose a President transparently by interviewing him, nobody will apply."
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