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    "id": 1470916,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I take this opportunity to contribute to this very important matter. The selection, nomination and maybe appointment of the Inspector-General of Police position in our country is highly regarded and respected. I feel that as a country, we have done exceptionally well when it comes to performing internationally. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because of the institutional memory, many of my friends here may not know or remember that Kenya is the country that provided security teams from the Kenyan Police Service (KPS) to go to Namibia to set up their police system after their independence. Kenya did the same in Zimbabwe and Rwanda. Right now, Kenya is in Haiti. Internationally, we have kept a highly respectful kind of engagement and people have known us, as a country that believes in the rule of law and that performs quite reasonably when it comes to our police service. However, one of the things that I have observed having been lucky to be around for quite a while is that the police service that we have right now is dysfunctional. One of the issues that my colleagues have raised and I would like to also raise is that you cannot have a police officer staying in a mud hut with his colleagues and some even sharing rooms with their wives. We cannot have a police service where sometimes a police officer is transferred unilaterally because he has annoyed some big person somewhere and their rights are violated. I keep talking about their salary for obvious reasons. I would probably spend a whole day discussing how we have mistreated our police service. Indeed, due to this dysfunction, the KPS has failed us miserably. My colleagues have talked about the recent events of unilateral arrests that you saw happen. If you look at it right now, a gentleman called Jimmy Wanjigi was arrested and his house was demolished. These are issues that I would like to seek in this House and to my brothers. I remember when Sen. Cherarkey was being arrested some three years ago and he was screaming, saying, “Oh my God, what will happen to me?” These people came at 5.00 a.m.. At that time when Sen. Cherarkey was speaking and crying, I thought he had lost his mind. I would like to encourage Mr. Kanja--- 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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