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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you. We are doing illegal things for political expediency. There is nothing like National Police Force (NPF) in our current constitutional order. We have the NPS. Article One, for which the council gets its confidence to send our NPS officers outside this country says that- “The Council may, with approval of Parliament, deploy police forces.” We do not have a force. If the Majority side is keen on pleasing the International Community, change the law. Look at the structure of the NPS Act. It did not contemplate even a single moment of sending our men and women in uniform in the service anywhere abroad. Even if we were to do so, because you insist that you have the powers to send anybody serving in this service, then at least do it the correct way. You cannot have a proposal that says a superintendent will be the head of mission or a deputy head of mission will be a superintendent. The other person who is following them will also be a superintendent. You cannot have one rank in all other responsibilities. There is no contingency plan should 100 of these officers die in Haiti. We are not given any kind of contingency plan to replace them both abroad and locally. To my disappointment of this Senate, under Article 96, we are elected to protect the interest of counties. I sit in the Budget and Finance Committee. Some of the budgets that we have got for increment from the county assemblies and the county governments are from Wajir, Mandera and Isiolo. They are budgets to increase security in those regions. How does a sane Senate take its officers out of the country when in our Budget and Finance Committee, we have claims to add officers to allow MCAs, governors and County Executive committee Members (CECMs) in our local governments do their work. Where is our priority as a nation if we cannot stand to protect ourselves internally? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I speak right now, in Kainuk, children cannot go to school."
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