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    "id": 1121157,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "I am very glad that during that time it had not quite come to a level to attract my attention in Kenya as arbitrary execution it was happening here and there. My sadness is that it is now something that has grown as the report has shown to a level where we have to be concerned. It is not that nothing was being done in Kenya. Things were being done which is why we had IPOA. Madam Deputy Speaker, I recall I had gone to Jamaica where they had their equivalent of IPOA. I came back hire and talked to the then Commissioner of Police. I will not say which year as to identify him. He said we should establish some mechanism to investigate the police officers who in execution of their duties exceed the force which is results in deprivation of life. The then Commissioner said there was no need for that because we already had within the police mechanisms for investigating that and carrying out disciplinary measures. He had completely misunderstood the concept what I wanted. I also noticed there was something similar also in United Kingdom (UK). Through the police reforms that were being undertaken IPOA came to be borne. I am glad that recommendations of this Committee are carrying IPOA’s mandate forward, giving them even more teeth as has been outlined by the Chairman in his introduction. Apart from just more teeth within the police force, they have also recommended that the mandate should be extended, for example, to the KWS, KFS and other organs who have workers who are entitled to use firearms in the course of execution of their duties. I support that. It is not that nothing has been happening. We also ultimately brought about the Witness Protection Act which is very important in this fight. The Chairman has explained why it is very important in this fight. My surprise is that issues such as the operationalization of the fund have delayed up to now yet, I have been out of that office for 10 years. I do not know what has been delaying it. When you look around you see that the National Treasury has been extremely slow in putting in place regulations which operationalize funds. This is not the only one. The other day, we had the Equalization Fund which has not been fully operationalized for all these years. It is only now that steps are being taken to draft, finalize and make the regulations operational. Madam Deputy Speaker, we also know that, for example, the regulations to operationalize the Judiciary fund have not been done. That is why the Judiciary has been complaining that it is under the mercy of the Executive and that it undermines their independence. I hope that the operationalization of this fund will be done as quickly as possible."
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