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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will be very brief. I think that the Committee has done a commendable job and they should be congratulated for the manner in which they went through the vetting process. They are giving us a template which the Attorney-General can use to draft the new process on how Parliament can vet people who have been appointed or nominated for other public positions. I just wanted to say that the rain started beating us in this country when we did not have a proper Judiciary in place. This was the case even during the pre-colonial period. After Independence, the same kind of system continued in which we did not have judges or members of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) who could stand up against the Executive or any other institutions. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very happy with these recommendations. It shows quite clearly that the young people in this country can take leadership. Justice Lenaola is a young judge who could take very principled positions particularly when he was in the Constitutional Division and the judicial review. Judge Omolo, as you have been told, is a great mind. But my favourite nominee to this Committee is Mr. Ahmednassir. I have seen this man in the highest court in the land standing firm without intimidation and standing for the country, litigants and his clients. If for this alone, I would pass this list. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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