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    "id": 301220,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it was a point of order. Therefore, I just wish to reiterate a number of issues which I believe are at the core of this debate. This Report is a report on one of the central issues in the implementation of the new Constitution. This Report is at the core. Indeed, it is the maiden and first step in what promises to be a long journey in the reform of the critical department of police and, therefore, it is important and I believe it is, indeed, a divine duty for this House to consider this matter with utmost seriousness because the decision that this House takes will shape the entire journey that we will travel in the very critical process of reforming the police. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, other agencies in the delivery of justice - the conveyor belt in the delivery of justice - like the Judiciary are already making big strides in the process of reform to ensure that justice is delivered timely and in a manner that abides with the spirit and letter of the Constitution. The same must be expected from the police. This Report makes some very strange and curious recommendations. One of the recommendations is anchored on what for all intents and purposes is an illegality, unprocedural and, therefore, untenable. One of the things this Committee did very strangely was to attempt to reinterview nominees or candidates that had already been interviewed by the authority properly vested with the mandate by the parent Statute – the nominating panel which had the responsibility to interview the candidates. The Report strangely goes on to make certain fundamental recommendations. This Report is incidentally not paginated but it is among the recommendations of the Committee. In Chapter 10 of that Report, recommendation number two states, and I quote it verbatim:- “His Excellency the President may consider nominating the chairperson of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), who shall have a sound legal background given that the mandate of the Commission has a quasi-judicial function, from one of the three persons’ names hereunder who had been duly interviewed by the Committee and who meet the requirements of Chapter Six of the Constitution.” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, those names that the Committee lists for consideration by the President is one, Mrs. Jean Njeri Kamau, Mr. Murshid A. Mohamed and Mr. Johnstone M. Kavuludi. This is a rather strange recommendation in the sense that Mrs. Jean Njeri Kamau for instance - this has got nothing to do with the qualifications of Mrs. Kamau who I believe is an excellent attorney and supremely qualified - was never among the names submitted to this House and, therefore, the name forwarded to the Committee for vetting. It is important for the Committee to tell this House how a name that was never transmitted to this House in accordance with the procedure clearly laid out in the structure suddenly takes an appearance before the Committee and ends up in a recommendation of this Committee as obviously a preferred candidate for chair of this particular NPSC. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are many other very strange decisions taken by this Committee but above all it is obvious that something happened during the communication between the Office of the President and the Office of the Prime Minister and back to the Office of the President and from the Office of the President---"
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