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    "content": "of interest as practising advocates. We feel that, that conflict can be resolved if a law is passed barring the JSC members from litigating before the judges or magistrates in this country. This should apply before the judges as well as magistrates. Other than that, the Members are quite aware of where the country is in terms of reforms and the judicial crisis within the Judiciary. The JSC will be the mechanism through which we will implement the various changes that are needed to make the Judiciary effective and fully compliant with the new Constitution. This will also help us to establish the Supreme Court as well as appoint the Chief Justice who should be appointed within six months from the date of the promulgation of the Constitution. Therefore, there is urgency in ensuring that the JSC is set up, so that these reforms can be accomplished as required. The other issue that I wish to point out is that with regard to the disagreement about the candidature of Ahmednassir Abdullahi, he was elected by the Law Society of Kenya. When dealing with the issue on dissent, we noted that his candidature was eliciting a lot of public response. Perhaps, the electoral content is political, but he is also a strong candidate who appears to invite responses both good and bad. We investigated and called evidence from those who had complaints against him and the Committee did not find any merit in those allegations about his integrity. We are urging the House to approve this report, so that we can carry out the Judicial reforms that are so badly needed, in preparation of not only the reforms that we are carrying out, but also in ensuring that we have a smooth implementation of the new Constitution. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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