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    "id": 307201,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mureithi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erastus Kihara Mureithi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for according me the opportunity to contribute to this very important debate on the National Intelligence Service Bill. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am glad that you lived in a developed country for quite a long time. For that matter, you know that information gathering is a very important aspect of the security of the United States of America (USA). So it is for this country. Information gathering, in terms of the NIS operations, is of paramount importance. One of the things that must be done is to de-politicize the appointment process of the Director-General and all the other officers of the Service. Once we de-politicize that process, we shall get out of situations similar to what we have seen in the past, where an important organ of the Executive like the NIS would be used by an individual to cause havoc amongst Kenyans. That is why de-politicizing appointments to the NIS will give us a Service which will take care of the intelligence interests of this country within and outside this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, countries in the developed world even send their intelligence officers outside their borders, so that if there are plans for incursions by militias, like the situation we currently have from our neighbouring country of Somalia, such information can reach the security organs that are required to respond, so that those organs can act proactively. Clause 48 provides for a process where judges are to be appointed to issue search warrants to NIS officers. However, something must be done by the relevant Committees"
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