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    "id": 66270,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, to this end, the Bill establishes an independent Board comprising of members, none of whom was a sitting judge or magistrate on the effective date. You will find that in Clause 6 as well as Clause 8(3)(b). The vetting process in the Bill ensures that fundamental rights of the persons subject to vetting are respected and political misuse or abuse of the vetting process is prevented. The positions, subject to vetting, have also been extremely clearly defined if you look at Cluase 4 of the Bill. Particular care has been taken to ensure that the independence of the judges, both in the process by which they are vetted, and in formulating the criteria is protected. In other words, the vetting is to be done by panels chaired by their own peers from within the country and the Commonwealth, because we have added a segment of three Commonwealth serving senior judges or retired judges."
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