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    "id": 201188,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the President",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the President's Memorandum relates to Section 23(4), which had been deleted by the National Assembly and which the President required to be re-inserted. It reads as follows: \"The provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Evidence Act, the Police Act and any other law conferring on the police the powers, privileges and immunities necessary or expedient for the detection, prevention and investigation of offences shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, apply to the Director and an investigator as if reference in those provisions to a police station, police office or a police officer included reference to the Commission's premises 4362 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 4, 2007 and the Director or an investigator.\" Mr. Speaker, Sir, so the Memorandum is intended to confer to the Commission those powers that are usually given to the police, so that they can carry out their duties. If you look at hon. Marende's proposed amendments on pages 635 and 636, Section 23(4), they read:- \"(d) deleting the words \"a police station, police office or\" immediately after the words \"reference in those provisions to\". (e) deleting the words \"the Commission's premises and the\" immediately after the words \"included reference to\". Mr. Speaker, Sir, the amendment is basically intended to make sure that the KACC is not given the powers that the President's Memorandum intended. Therefore, it amounts to a negation of the President's intention. Therefore, it requires a two-thirds majority for it to pass!"
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