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    "speaker_name": "Belgut, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nelson Koech",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Allow me to also add my voice to the debate on the Motion for deployment of officers to Haiti. Like many of my colleagues have said, I do not understand why they did not involve the Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations in this matter. I have listened to Hon. TJ Kajwang’ and I want to invite him to look at the Act. The President may interpret the discretion provided in Section 108(1) of the National Police Service Act differently. I do not want to go into the details. Let me just go to the humanitarian bit of why we need our police officers in Haiti as soon as possible. Officers from our country have been on different missions before to countries which we are not related to in any way, whether in colour or religion. Our officers have been to Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and East Timor. In fact, the Deputy Inspector-General of the Administration Police Service, Mr Noor Gabow, led a mission that did very well in East Timor. That is part of the reason why we must deploy our officers in Haiti. In 2018, Kenya was recognised by the United Nations and 28 of our officers were promoted. In fact, the UN took one of our officers, the Chief Inspector of Police, Ms Irene Kerubo, and retained her at the UN because of the work she did in South Sudan. In recognition of their distinguished service and efforts in trying to restore peace in South Sudan, 23 police officers were awarded different medals by the UN on 26th June 2018. Foreign policy is hinged on five pillars - peace, economic, environmental, cultural and diaspora diplomacy. This country must continuously be the anchor of peace. We must continuously engage in ensuring that we restore peace to regions that we have been deployed to. Kenya has done well within the region. I mentioned at the beginning of the week that our officers, who have restored relative calm in Somalia, will be coming back to the country. We are currently engaged in peace missions within the region in countries like the DRC, Somalia, and Burundi. I honestly do not see why we cannot go to Haiti. The problem in Haiti is the gangs, which are only in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Haiti is dealing with about 200 gangs. The House has those records. We were told that Kenya had 325 gangs, including the Mungiki, the Chinkororo and others in 2017. Hon. Osoro is not amused about the Chinkororo . They were all quelled by our police officers. I submit that our officers are able and there is no reason why we should not deploy them to Haiti. I support the Motion."
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