Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1355070,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1355070/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 204,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. TJ Kajwang’",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have been listening to the debate in the House. Let us be sober. The onerous duty given to us as the National Assembly to approve forces’ deployment is a very important thing. Let us take out emotions and look at facts. In my recollection, this is the very first time we are doing this. At the end of the day, it will be our appendage to divorce distribution or deployment as a mandate of the National Assembly. I am just looking at the law so that we do not do something unconstitutional and outside the law. Section 108 of the Police Service Act talks about “the president may, on the application of the Government of a reciprocating country…” and so on. I have looked at the functions of the Police Service and looked through all the functions given to the Inspecto-General. Section 108 is the only one under which the President may send the Police Service elsewhere. In the rest of the sections, the Police Service is a homeland... It protects inside the country. The only place in which the Police Service can go out of the country is under Section 108. It begins by saying that the President can do that, but in a reciprocating country. I would want the Chair to express itself and apply its mind to whether Haiti is a reciprocating country. Over all the things you have said, the Police Service is supposed to help us internally, not outside. That is if Haiti is not a reciprocating country. The only authority given by the law is to reciprocating countries. This is a very important issue. I do not say that we stay the proceedings. However, even as we go on, I ask that the speakership applies its mind to this matter and come back with a reasoned Communication from the Chair. That is whether, in the facts of this matter, Haiti is a reciprocating country for which we as the National Assembly have the requisite jurisdiction to approve the forces to go to a foreign country. Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
}