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    "id": 506477,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abongotum",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 165,
        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Statement given by the Head of State on the state of our national security as we speak now. The Statement has quite captured the saline security issues that we face as a country and all these challenges are real for Kenya. However, I will go straight to the challenges that we face, especially the challenges arising from the incidents in Mandera, Kapedo, the attack in the military camp in Coast Province and many others. As a nation, I think this is the right time to have dialogue especially on this subject of security because if this country is not secure, we will not invest, create wealth or enjoy staying in it. So, I propose that we have this dialogue and I want to propose that in Parliament, the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security together with the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations sit down and look at the legal loopholes that we have. I think almost a year ago, we came up with several amendments to the National Police Service Act and the National Police Service Commission Act. We had several sittings with Kenyans and what we see happening in this country is systemic weaknesses within the police force. We want to see a situation where this country will not entertain two parallel commands for the Administration Police (AP) and Regular Police. When we sat with the Inspector-General of Police we actually requested him that we put this in law. However, he said we wait because he could do it administratively and we gave him six months. It is time we actually came up with an amendment so that we consider either merging the two forces to be one or the Administration Police be commanded by the Provincial Administration as it has been for the last so many years, I think since 1963. So, let us look at this because as we speak right now, the command in the area of APs is actually--- I think it is like they have run out of--- They are actually rogue because they do not get information or command from the Sub-county Commissioner and the Regular Police. We need to have that command harmonised. Secondly, we can actually decide to divide the two. Let us have 23 commanders from the Administration Police and 23 from the Regular Police. This is so that we have one command structure in this country. As we speak, the Regular and Administration Police are talking to each other but not performing security duties to the expectations of Kenyans. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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