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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I know all the nominees. I know Madam Peris Muthoni Kimani, a lady who has risen from very humble beginnings and served up to very high echelons of the security apparatus. I also know Benjamin Imai, I worked with him in the security sector when serving in this Committee since 2013. He is a very capable man who will ably serve in this important Commission. Additionally, Madam Collette A. Suda was a sociology lecturer at the University of Nairobi for a very long time. She is an amazing lady who has served previously as a Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Education and a Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS). I know them all. I want to emphasis that we have a team of nominees here who will perform the functions and roles of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC). This Commission has four main roles under the Constitution: recruitment, transfer, promotion and control over the processes of discipline of police officers. Seeing their orientation and where they come from - Ms Peris is from the Kenya Police, Benjamin Imai is from the Administration Police, and of course, Collette A. Suda from the public, having been a sociology lecturer, this is a great team. Allow me to also emphasis one point which has been spoken to by the Leader of the Majority Party. In this country, we have the best Bill of Rights. We must allow our people to enjoy those provisions in our human rights and fundamental freedoms to the full. We need to remind all Kenyans and foreigners in this country, that we can only enjoy those fundamental freedoms and human rights within the confines of the Constitution and the law. We need to underline the fact that ultimately, we need a stable state. I was very sad when I saw a video of a person, now confirmed to be a foreigner, wielding a panga at our police officers on the main street in Nakuru. He was wielding the"
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