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    "id": 1460579,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1460579/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera North, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Major (Rtd) Abdullahi Sheikh",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have keenly listened to the Statement by the Hon. Chairman. The Statement is misleading because PSRA claims that they took an administrative action, not a legal notice. However, the legal notice was published by the Government Printer in the Kenya Gazette. For this reason, it cannot be an administrative action. The most important part is that the regulations being cited and implemented by PSRA are the ones the 12th Parliament annulled. There are new regulations that are now in the works that have not even been brought to our Committee. That means that what they are implementing is illegal, and it is causing a lot of despondency in the industry. My advice to Kenyans and stakeholders in the security industry is that the regulations being implemented by the Private Security Regulatory Authority (PSRA) are null and void. They should not cheat Kenyans into thinking they are doing something legal. It is illegal because this House has not approved it. The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection publishes the minimum wage. PSRA has no role or mandate to get involved in matters related to minimum wage. Their work is to implement what has been set by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection. But they now want to do things the other way around - to set the minimum wage and to implement it. That is not their mandate. I acknowledge the Chairman's resolve that this requires all stakeholders to get involved so that we can have a win-win regulation for both employers and employees. As it stands now, those regulations are not in force and are illegal. PSRA should stop harassing and interfering with the work of private security firms in the country."
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