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    "id": 1461067,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "security team are sitting while criminals hired by the Governor are walking around with the jembe sticks, harassing young men and women, pregnant mothers and the disabled in Kapsabet Town in broad daylight. Why should this happen yet we are struggling here? As we talk, the Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers of Nandi County are supposed to go on strike because they have not been paid. The county has money to hire hooligans, but cannot buy drugs and pay ECD teachers well. The roads are impassable in Nandi as we speak. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will bring a comprehensive Statement to have the Inspector General of Police, because we are doing what we call ‘bad manners” in this country. If we are allowing criminals to walk around with jembe sticks or crude weapons in a big town such as Kapsabet, what are you selling to the rest of the country? I will be challenging this and, therefore, we must agree that even as we approve or pass anything in this House, we must ensure that we speak truth to powers. The governors should understand that they do not have powers to overrun the police or security apparatus, unless you are telling the country you no longer trust the security apparatus. Article 37 of the Constitution provides for the right to picket and demonstrate. You saw there were national protests and I did not hear the President directing or taking people to streets to counter-demonstrate. The President said “let people demonstrate and be given security as Article 37 and 38.” This cannot happen unless Kapsabet Town is in another country. However, if it is in the country that is Kenya, just like Kilifi, Mombasa, our neighbours in Kakamega, Homa Bay and Tana River, then there is a big problem. We should call this out and I want to challenge the Acting Inspector General of Police, even as he comes for vetting. We must see action as at now to ensure that we protect the right of Kenyans. Why would somebody have a problem with that? We normally have demonstrators here at the gate, and you as the Temporary Speaker, have never ordered anybody to be clobbered or harassed for coming to Parliament to present a Petition. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) is established under Article 230 of the Constitution. During the reading of the Message to vet the Inspector General of Police, I was embarrassed that some Members of the National Assembly and it is in the interest of the Minority Leader, Sen. Rtd. Justice Madzayo, that some Members were saying that the Senate does not have a role in the vetting of the Inspector General of Police. It is on the HANSARD. If somebody challenges me, I can produce the HANSARD. Which constitution and law are they reading? Security is a shared function just like emergency disaster preparedness. I always get shocked about this. Which country are we in when Members of the National Assembly contest on vetting? If the Members of National Assembly embarrassed themselves with what they did, they should not use the Senate to redeem themselves. They should redeem themselves. Why were they bashed, yet they attack the Senate? They attacked us on Conflict of Interest Bill and it is on the HANSARD. They did not want the Senate to be part of the vetting of Inspector General of Police, yet it is in the Constitution. The law is very clear under Article 93 on the establishment of Parliament. Article 93 (1) state that – The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services, Senate."
}