{"id":706541,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/706541/?format=json","text_counter":198,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":376,"legal_name":"Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona","slug":"millie-odhiambo-mabona"},"content":"One of the things that I would want to raise as a concern for me is--- Sometimes, I have seen that when I raise some of these issues, they sound very simple but I have been proven right. I cannot remember the law that came here. I think it was the law on vetting of magistrates and judges. There was just one word like the one I am going to raise here that talked about temperament. I pushed for the deletion of that word. I remember even very senior lawyers like my good friend, Senator James Orengo, and the late Mutula Kilonzo were on record as saying: ―No! No! No! We need temperate judges.‖ It was used to purge extremely good judges like Justice Ang’awa. The reason she was removed from the court was because of her temperament. This is a woman who was incorruptible yet we have left corrupt people in that court merely because Justice Ang’wa goes to court and she looks like she has a mood. If you compare mood against corruption, I would rather have a person with a mood any day. The most Justice Ang’awa would do is tell you that she could not see you because your earrings were big or other very irrelevant things. I could go out and remove my earrings and she could hear me. However, I cannot change a corrupt judge. Those are the people we need out of our courts."}