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    "id": 82934,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. G.O. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have only one more useful thing I may add to the contribution and, particularly, on the question of vetting. I do sit in that Committee. We saw those two Kenyans. We believe and commend them to Kenyans to serve in the Judicial Service Commission. But before we embark on vetting others, I think it is imperative that we must first now design a Vetting Act, so that we do have a standard for every appointment we are going to make. That we know what it is that we are looking for in that person. I do not think that it should be left just to our whims in that Committee to say: “I was in school with so and so and I think he is a good person or currently I am not happy with so and so and so I think he is not a good person.” The very thing we are talking about is a new dispensation. Before we start vetting those judges and magistrates, before we start approving the appointments for Permanent Secretaries, ambassadors and so on, before we even worry about the Judicial Service Commission Bill and so forth – and I am appealing to the Attorney-General and the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs – let us agree on how we are going to vet these people. If we do not do so, we are going to land ourselves into a situation where there is going to be a barter trade; where we sit in Committees and we say: “Why do you not give us a few from your place, a few from this; after all they all have the same qualifications”. So, perhaps, we need to set that standard. I think there was an attempt in the Committee by introducing a schedule to this particular thing. I, personally, am not quite comfortable with what we have proposed and, in fact, I did not even get the opportunity to contribute. Not because I was not there, and this is something we have to resolve also, between the Departmental Committee of Justice and Legal Affairs and the Select Committee of Parliament on the Implementation of the new Constitution. I can see and already we are overlapping and clashing. I think it may even require your intervention to know which particular Committee has which function. This may help us speed up this particular process. I, personally sat in that Committee and I commend these two very good Kenyans. Thank you."
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