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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are several other measures being put in place. First, we are getting more used to the terrorist attacks. I want to inform the hon. Member that CCTV does not only capture the image of a person after the act. Once the security forces have an image or a photograph of a suspect, it is fed into the CCTV system. When that suspect gets to any other place, the message is received by the CCTV system and this is communicated straightaway. The security personnel are alerted. So, it is very easy to apprehend somebody, if there is a CCTV system in place. So, the CCTV system we are putting in place is not just for image capturing. The system we are trying to put in place is much more sophisticated than merely giving the physical imaging of a suspect. It is a system that will be tracking a suspect on a 24-hour basis. It will also be using a combination of mobile telephoning. Hon. Members have seen that the photograph of the character who was involved in Monday’s incident has already been published in the media. You can see his image on the newspapers. If there was a CCTV system in place, that image would have helped the police to track that character. He would have been apprehended immediately. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Rachael Shabesh was concerned about the conflicting statements that emanated from three arms of the Government. I would like to assure her that the statements were made sporadically. They were basically made on the instant impression that those individuals had received. It was not as a result of comprehensive investigations of the incident. It is like the story of the five blind men who went to touch an elephant. They touched different parts of the body of the elephant. One man touched the leg and thought that it was the trunk. Another one touched the task, and it was smooth, et cetera . So, it depends on the position from which the Commissioner of Police was standing when he made that statement. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I arrived at the scene some minutes later and got access to the premises. I found the bomb experts in the process of their work. They showed me the area of detonation. I saw a crater on the floor. Looking up, I was shown how the force of the explosion had shattered the roof and the windows of the adjacent building. From my own engineering training, I assumed that it must have been a very heavy explosion indeed. I asked the bomb experts whether it was as a result of a TNT device, which is one of the explosives that emit that kind of force. So, I was basically merely speaking from a technical point of view. Since then, more investigations have been carried out and the police are very close to a much more informed conclusion. So, I would like to urge the hon. Member not to be very harsh on the Commissioner of Police because the Commissioner of Police might not have seen the crater that I saw. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hon. Twaha is concerned about the preparations ahead the introduction of the devolved system of government. He believes that we are behind schedule since he has not seen the Governor’s office or the Governor’s residence in his county. We are making arrangements. Provision has been made in the coming Budget for installation of some of the key requirements such as the offices of the devolved units, including the Governors’ residences, and so on. In case the buildings will not be ready by the time of rolling out the system, there is financial provision for renting of some premises, so that the devolved units can start to operate almost immediately after the elections. I just want to say that the appointment of the County Commissioners is not part of that preparation. The appointment of the County Commissioners is another matter altogether. Mr. Deputy Speaker, hon. Mungatana has asked a very complicated question. I would want to say that I do not have the names at hand. Neither do I have the details of the counties from where the chairpersons of the Commissions that have been established come from. However, I want us to go beyond the former regions. Let us also look at the counties generally. We have got 47 different counties. It is true that the Constitution talks of regions and counties. We are not yet through with the appointments of the chairpersons of the Commissions since other appointments are still on the way. I want us to look at the way in which appointments to those Commissions have been carried out. You begin, first, by setting up a fairly representative panel to carry out the interviews, after the Public Service Commission has carried out the advertisement and the short-listing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those who are qualified are interviewed by a fairly professional team. Once they have done the interviewing, they do the selection and make recommendations to the principals. The principals pick people from the list that has been forwarded to them by the team of experts who have carried out professional interviewing. Once consultations between the two principals have taken place, the names of the nominees are finally forwarded to this House for approval. So, there may have been some misunderstanding. If there had not been some misunderstanding, probably, lately, we would have had somebody coming from the region that the hon. Member calls the “Coast Region”. I want it to be known that there has been no deliberate attempt to marginalise or to ignore any part of the country in these appointments. We want to be as inclusive as possible but, as the principals, our hands are also constrained by the process. We are just a link in the chain of the process of appointment of members to the independent Commissions."
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