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    "id": 665349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "June 16, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 27 Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was remaining with two points. The first point of the two is that I wanted to speak to the low moments that we have had in the Judiciary while the Chief Justice was in charge. The first one is the 2013 contested presidential election between Hon. Raila versus President Uhuru Kenyatta. I expected that the Chief Justice would use this opportunity to speak to that election. If you were to ask all non-legal minds in this country, especially students of history, the best thing that they remember about that particular contested election was that evidence of about 1800 pages was set aside and the ruling was done in a record three minutes. Such a serious determination that was being made, when weighed against the determination of the retirement age, the ruling of the determination of the retirement age went on into the night for six hours. Yet, a more critical thing like the presidential elections was treated like a joke and comedy. Hon. (Dr.) Willy Mutunga will find it difficult to remove that black spot in his biography. The ruling by the Judiciary on the impeachment of Governor Wambora of Embu will again remain a black spot in the auto-biography of Chief Justice, Hon. (Dr.) Willy Mutunga. Some of us who know Chief Justice Willy Mutunga and have worked with him elsewhere were expecting a slightly better performance by way of the approach on fighting corruption in the Judiciary. It is sad that purely because of corruption, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) went through what it did when Chief Justice Willy Mutunga was in charge. To the extent that even the President attempted to interfere with that Commission at one stage."
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