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    "id": 1371804,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
        "slug": "enoch-kiio-wambua"
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    "content": "I like the proposal, though I saw a few of my colleagues smiling suggestively on this proposal, that the Speaker and the Clerk would effect the arrest. Come to think of it. In most cases, our police service has either been unwilling or unable to take firm decisions against senior members of the executive. There is a proposal that has been brought to the Floor, and that is not the one I want to prosecute. Maybe it is high time that the Parliamentary Service Commission, through this Bill, thinks very seriously about the establishment of a Parliamentary Police Service. The import of the arrest being proposed by Sen. Osotsi is not necessarily for the presentation of the arrested persons before courts. They are supposed to be arrested and presented either in plenary or in committees. So, the power to arrest and present the arrested persons before committees of Parliament or in plenary should surely rest with a service that is answerable to Parliament, not answerable to the same executive that is being followed up. Even as we talk about the power to arrest by the Parliamentary Police Unit that we are proposing, I would go further. Maybe you should propose these amendments in the Third Reading; that the security of Members should be provided for by officers from the Parliamentary Police Service. Having to beg the Executive, the National Police Service, to provide Members with security and they decide to withdraw them at will is not even sustainable. So, if we had a Parliamentary Police Service, which is properly equipped and properly trained in public relations, I am seeing a situation where, for example, if they want to go and arrest the Governor of Nairobi City County my friend, Hon. Sakaja, and I am not saying that they should arrest him, they will use the demeanour of an elite squad in Kiswahili saying, “ Naomba nikushike .” They will be humane and know how to deal with VIPs as opposed to the current situation where the discretion of whether to be---"
}