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    "content": "God gave me a very good gift. I am proud of who I am and I have no apologies to make about it. We criminalise and demonize this thing called activism. This country would not be where it is without activism. If, for instance, I wanted to be a judge or anything else, then I am precluded because I fought for change in this country. It cannot be a crime. I am seeing Prof. Yash Pal Gai wearing T-shirts which he never used to wear before because he is not happy with what is going on. Does that make him a bad person? No! It just makes him a Kenyan that wants change and we cannot criminalize that. So, it would be very unfortunate, the day that, say, the name of Prof. Yash Pal Gai comes here and we start calling him an activist. I am an activist. I was an activist and will always be an activist. I am proud to be an activist because it makes things happen in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to speak about temperament which Mr. Mungatana spoke about. I know this is a good Bill. However, I will be been proposing some amendments. One of them is on the issue of temperament. I am not a psychologist. However, working with children, I have been forced to train a little on issues of psychology. I can tell you from what you have prescribed here, we will be hiring a judiciary of melancholics and phlegmatics. The rest of us who are sanguines and cholerics will be out of the equation. Those are personality types. That is what we talk about when we are talking about temperaments. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, God ordained us to be what we are and who we are. There are those of us who are loud. We make the world beautiful by being loud. There are those who are quiet. We make the world beautiful by being quiet. So, we cannot pick a personality type and say that in the Judiciary, we want a personality type. I saw a lot of resistance when Mr. Ahmednassir Abdulahi came before us and yet if you really ask what the issue is, people say: “This guy is rude”. So, what? I have never seen any law in Kenya which says it is a crime to be rude. It is about manners. If you cannot learn manners, that is a different thing. However, it is not a crime to be rude. It would be good to be courteous. But we cannot put it in a law that if you are not courteous, you cannot have a job. This is because half of this country would be jobless, anyway. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about the issue of the need for judicial reforms."
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