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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I take this opportunity to thank Hon. William Cheptumo, our Chairman for the Committee on National Security, Defense and Foreign Relations and Hon. Gabriel Tongoyo, his counterpart in the National Assembly for the good work they have done in preparing this Report. In seconding the appointment of Mr. Douglas Kanja, I take this Floor to commend Mr. Kanja. I know a lot is going to be said in this House about his good qualifications, his many years in service and his excellent performance up to now. However, I would like to emphasize on what Mr. Kanja has been doing of late and I would like him to not stop. We are not saying anything bad about the previous IG, but even in his acting capacity, Douglas Kanja has been communicating to the Kenyan people, especially when we were having challenges in the city and other areas with high population in the country. He would come out and tell us; this is the plan the police have, this is what we expect from those who want to express their opinion, where they need to go and what they want to do and this is the way we are going to handle this matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the expectation of the public and this is the expectation we want the new IG to carry out. We want proper communication. I have sat in this House and spoken about the responsibility of public officers and their responsibility to speak to Kenyans. When we were approving Dr. Patrick Amoth here, I stood here in this House and said that we are having issues that need proper communication. We do not want to be told by bloggers what is happening with Mpox. We want the officials of the Government to speak with authority on these matters and, therefore, yesterday, I was very gratified when I saw the Director of Public Health speaking with authority on the question of Mpox. Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is not a matter of the Principal Secretary or the Cabinet Secretary. That is a matter of an official who is technical in the Ministry to speak to us with authority, so that we are not exposed to the half and quarter knowledge of bloggers which they circulate as the truth. We want the new IG of police to be addressing us. The Cabinet Secretary and the PS have their place, but when it comes to security matters, the IG must be seen, must be heard and must be felt within the Republic of Kenya. When we see the Cabinet Secretary going to Baringo, he is a policy man, but we want to see what the person in charge has done, how many people he has deployed and how much money he has used for the operation. We want people who are holding public offices to speak with the authority of that office, so that Kenyans can get value for money. When there is a gap, there are problems, rumours and false information. For example, when we had the recent demonstrations that happened, it was the responsibility of the IG of the NPS to come and say; this is what transpired, the estimated value of the property lost is this, the police lost some officers and this is the number that we lost. The public should also be given condolences; we lost some lives and this is the number. You speak with authority and impartially. Mr. Speaker, Sir, unfortunately, we have even had arguments about the number of people we lost and we have not been told that. When we say that our people are involved, we want the police authorities and Mr. Kanja to take this official position without fearing The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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