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    "id": 596101,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to put my contributions to this jumbled proposal. Sometimes I find it interesting why we rush and make many mistakes. I am puzzled by the enthusiasm with which this Bill is before this House. I am also puzzled by the enthusiasm with which this Bill wants to amend and introduce very many things at a time when there is a lot of noise around the country. I know it is easy for the Executive to use the miscellaneous omnibus Bill to do sneaky things. At least, give us a chance as a House to do something. I am happy that the Leader of the Majority Party withdrew the very contentious subject from this Bill about the IPOA. What this Bill purported to do to the IPOA is thoroughly and overly unconstitutional. It beats logic why the first Government under our new Constitution should not be giving more teeth to the IPOA. The Government would not listen to the voices of Kenyans to know that, if nothing else, they want this country to change. The police should change the way it relates with the public. Just about six days ago, I was involved in trying to release the former Mayor of Nairobi, Hon. Aladwa, from arrest. What we went through in the hands of the police and a few days later - confronted with a Bill to have the police being free to keep doing more of the same - makes you not sleep. In that incident, Aladwa presented himself to what we call Nairobi Area Police Station and then Kilimani Police Station. That is where we joined him and he wrote a statement. The offence he purportedly committed is a misdemeanour. So, the police should have given him a cash bail which we eventually got for Kshs20,000 after about 12 or 14 hours. However, we had to go to court. After recording a statement, we were led on a wild goose chase to Kiambu Road to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). You will be shocked. When we got there, nobody wanted to talk to us. We were there for about an hour and we never spoke to anybody contrary to Press reports that we were seen by the CID bosses. Then out of nowhere we went to Kamukunji Police Station. What we saw at Kamukunji and that is why the Government must be very careful 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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