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    "id": 22071,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the National Police Service Commission will be the employer of all police in the entire country. It will be the human resource arm of the entire police service and what I find very difficult to understand is that the Minister has either omitted or forgotten to emphasize the real problem that there is when it comes to recruitment, appointments, transfers and promotion of police officers. Practically speaking the Commission has said, and I ask the Minister to look at the top of page 850; this is Clause 10 (2). It says that they can delegate to the concerned Inspector-General the recruitment, appointment and promotion of police officers. If you go to various other provisions like the powers of the Commission to interview persons for purposes of filling vacancies under Clause 11, you will find that these powers are excluding the only point I want to make. The only point I want to make is that we have left out the provision that will make it mandatory for the Commission to say that they will take into consideration county, regional and ethnic balancing. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I speak for the people of Garsen and many people who are marginalized in the police service. You will find a whole ethnic group has been left out of the service from a certain rank upwards; we are nowhere! This Bill has repeated the same mistake. Go to staffing, if you look at Clause 17 on the appointment of staff in this Commission, again it has been left general. Again, we people who are marginalized will be left out. When recruitment is being done, when promotions are being done and when transfers are being done we have always been left out."
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