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    "id": 19571,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, fourthly, I think that if this Board will serve Kenyans effectively, perhaps, saying they open a unit in each county is overstretching, because we must also be conscious of the desire to limit the use of resources, so that they go into developmental issues. However, I think that clustering several counties and giving them a unit to deal with matters, because you know when you talk about police division, they do not necessarily follow administrative boundaries. So, the Police Oversight Authority can follow the cluster of police divisions. For example, we could say, a number of police divisions in this region will be clustered under one unit and they will have one outpost there of the Authority to deal with the day-to-day complaints. Therefore, all over the country, we can end up with about ten or devolved units of the Authority working full time to deal with these issues. Again, we do not want to overload a centre. Nairobi is so overloaded with many things that we should not be overloading it any more with operational issues. I would expect counties in what used to be called Western Province, which has since disappeared with the new Constitution, can have one unit. The current Nyanza Province can have another unit. The current Central Province can have another unit. The current Coast Province can have two units because of the physical size of the area. The current North Eastern Province can have two or three units. The Rift Valley Province can be broken into four or five units. With these units, we can give proper services to wananchi."
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