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    "id": 1355002,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I was saying that Article 240(8) of the Constitution, that we seem to hide behind by purporting to process this deployment of the National Police Service to Haiti, simply talks about deployment of national forces outside Kenya. Article 241 of the Constitutions provides for the establishment of the Kenya Defence Forces. Further, the Article lists those forces as consisting of Kenya Army, Kenya Air Force and Kenya Navy. This Article simply talks about the three arms which constitute the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). It could have been easier, if the drafters of the Constitution intended to include the National Police Service (NPS) as part of the Forces to say so explicitly under Article 240(8) of the Constitution. We cannot afford to do what they are currently trying to do by circumventing the Constitution and the law. In fact, the NPS as established under Articles 243 and 245 of the Constitution is under the command of the Inspector-General (IG) and not the President or any other person. The Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces is not the commander of NPS. That is my submission and you can challenge me. So, this was not the intention of the makers of our Constitution, Hon. Otiende Amollo is here and he will help us. He was a Member of the 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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