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    "id": 786489,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, one arm of Government, in this case the Judiciary, is presenting to another arm of Government their nominee to sit on the JSC and that is Justice Warsame. This is after the rigorous process that this gentleman has gone through to be elected to represent that category of judges in this country. This is a process. In my view, there is a purpose for vetting. We cannot vet someone perpetually. The main reason why we vet is to understand whether someone is qualified for a job. Vetting is not an exam. We vet to get to understand whether someone qualifies for a position or not. If this person has gone through a process to qualify to be a member of the JSC proposed by one arm of Government, namely, the Judiciary, I do not think the doctrine of separation of powers would allow us to subject this gentleman to further vetting. I am shocked that this is coming from the Majority side. Just the other day, this House passed a resolution that all those Cabinet Secretaries who have been reappointed to office by the President will not be subjected to fresh vetting by the House. Therefore, the question that I want to ask the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs as he prepares to reply - and I wish he would listen first - is if we made a decision as a House that the reappointed Cabinet Secretaries are not supposed to be subjected to another round of vetting, why are we subjecting the reappointment of a member of the JSC representing the Court of Appeal judges in the commission, to vetting? The same Justice Warsame has been sitting on the JSC. Let us not have our cake and eat it. If we are not subjecting people who have held offices to fresh vetting for the same office, there is no reason to again subject Justice Warsame to vetting. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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