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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "I agree that they need also to move this headquarters from Nairobi because every other thing that we have established, we have done so in the capital, and it is important maybe to see--- If you do not move it, decentralize it. If you decentralize it, do not have any board to appoint the people who will be in this Oversight Authority. We should give it to the governor and his cabinet, because now we have a new dispensation. The governor is constitutionally mandated. Give the governor an opportunity to appoint experienced people who live in that county, and who can have the trust of the local community. That way, people will be able to give their complaints to it. We should not have to reinvent the wheel. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the timeline, I agree with the Members who said that there is no timeline. If I take a complaint to this Oversight Authority, within what period of time will they be expected to act so that my complaint will have been addressed? We have this problem in the North Eastern Province. You will see today what is happening. The main engagement of the police is to round up youths in North Eastern Province for two reasons. First of all, if you do not have a national identity card, it is a crime in this country. So, if you are in Wajir, the police business is to look for youths who do not have identity cards, and they are very many. Whose business is it to provide these identity cards? The same Government should have provided identity cards to the youths, but you will see the police patrolling Wajir, Mandera and Garissa particularly in search of youths who do not have national identity cards. They ask: “Wapi kipande? Letakipande”. They can take them round and round the whole night and until the following day when a senior citizen, or a parent who is known, intervenes and that kid is released. But he has already suffered for 15 to 20 hours in detention. If he complains, there is no timeline within which that complaint should be addressed. For instance, the youths could be entertaining themselves and having miraa engagements in their sessions. Then after that, they go home. But they get arrested and accused of loitering. So, these petty offences, which do not amount to serious crimes, are used by the police, particularly from the part of the country where we come from, as a business enterprise to extort money from the youths. Some of them even go to the extend of taking their wallets and saying:"
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