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    "id": 82952,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyambati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Walter Enock Osebe Nyambati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to support this Report of this Committee. I am extremely happy that I am part of this 10th Parliament, which is on the verge of making a lot of history. I think this country now has started to see that this House is playing by the fairness that it should. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am happy to note that we are now giving the Kenyan people the opportunity to be what they must be if they play by the rules and if they work hard. This country is giving our young people a chance to excel and I want to say that in the recent past, we have seen this House vet very young and able people like Prof. Lumumba who came from no big family and became what he is. I can now see that we are at a point of supporting this Report where Justice Isack Lenaola and Principal Magistrate Emily Ominde are going to be part of this Judicial Service Commission. Mr. Speaker, these are young Kenyans who have worked hard and become what they are, not because of the name that they carry but because they have been given the opportunity and this is what we must do in this country; give the young Kenyans an equal opportunity to become what they must become if they work hard and if they play by the rules. I have heard from several Members of the legal fraternity praising the young judge for being impartial, hard working and for being a straightforward Kenyan. This is what we must do. We must encourage this in all spheres, we must encourage Kenyans to know that they no longer must carry whichever name they carry to become what they must become. And so even as we support this Motion, we need also to look in the other areas which are going to come up so that we can appoint Kenyans into positions who are clean, who can be given the opportunity, Kenyans who can take this country to higher heights. It is a responsibility of this House as the constitution mandates, to vet these people and there are many other commissions that will be doing so. I want us to be fair, and this House must be fair, it must be seen to live up to its expectations, where we give people a chance also to become what they must become. Mr. Speaker, Sir, even as I finish, I want to urge this House that they must also look at those communities which are marginalized, because they also can produce young Kenyans who can become what they have to become, who can become responsible citizens of this country."
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