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    "id": 82878,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/82878/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 22,
        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "I have just come from the Republic of South Africa, where I was heading the Kenyan delegation to the Pan African Parliament. Reading the media there, even Constitutional amendments involving the exercise of Presidential prerogative, you will find that notices go out to the media inviting applicants to serve in these four positions before appointments are made. So, I look forward to seeing the other entities that are required to nominate persons to serve in the Judicial Service Commission follow the example of the Kenya Judges and Magistrates Association, and in particular the Head of State when he appoints one woman and one man to represent the Republic. I would like to see the same example, where an advertisement goes to Kenyan newspapers and even the Kenya Gazette from the President of the Republic of Kenya inviting Kenyan citizens, men and women who want to be recommended for service in the Judicial Service Commission. This will enable him have a wide number of candidates from whom he can nominate the persons he sends to this House. Unlike others whom we can summon to the Committees during sessions of the Committees of the House, we cannot summon His Excellency the President. So, it is up to him also to show by example that when he chooses the two people who will serve in the Judicial Service Commission, the process of nominating them to this House is also very transparent. We would like to see an example where a media notice in the dailies, and if necessary, on the radio and television is coming from the Office of the President inviting Kenyans to submit names for appointment by the President to serve in the Judicial Service Commission. This should be the same way the Kenya Judges and Magistrates Association has done; the way the Law Society of Kenya will be doing shortly and the way others have done."
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