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    "id": 1471456,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I wish to support the decision of the Joint Committees on the appointment of Mr. Douglas Kanja to the position of the Inspector-General (IG). Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we support his appointment, I would like to send a message that when we passed the Constitution of Kenya 2010, we intended that we move from the Police Force to a Police Service. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Article 244 of the Constitution that guides on how the police can be a service has, to date, not been implemented. The police continue to be a force rather than a service. My plea to the incoming IG is that this is a golden opportunity for him to be the first IG to make a serious attempt to implement the police as a service. I believe if you implement the police as a service, this will benefit everybody in the country. It will benefit communities, families and the Government and we will be a better off community. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to speak to a few particular issues that I think the IG must pay attention to. We have so many cases of lost children in this country. Every so often you hear this child is being looked for, disappeared or died. I would like to ask the police to invest more time in trying to deal with child trafficking in the country, so that we can deal with that menace. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to request that the IG collaborates better with other departments. The information from the Kenya Health Information System indicates that between 2016 and 2023, we had nearly 200,000, 10- 14-year-old girls who were became pregnant. This information was picked from health facilities. All of these are defilements. Do we have a similar number of prosecutions in our courts? No, we do not have. This is because these cases are not prosecuted and followed because the provincial administration from sub-chiefs and the others, including the police get into negotiations instead of prosecuting these cases. We are asking that for the protection of girls and boys in this country, because the defilement is also happening to the boys, that the IG will spend a lot more time and put in place mechanisms to ensure that our children, especially the girls, are protected from sexual violence. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have had quite a number of deaths in our universities. We have had brutal deaths that happen where, people, especially girls are murdered. We are asking that he also looks into that. 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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