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    "id": 307322,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to support this Bill. I want to say from the outset that if this Bill is passed the way it is, it will make Kenya a police state. I want specifically to refer hon. Members to Miscellaneous Provisions which are very mischievous for this country. It says that the Director-General prescribes the procedure for the classification; protection--- This means that he has the authority to destroy documents. What I would propose here is that the Director-General-- -, whatever information he gets and however sensitive it is, it should not be destroyed. A situation will arise whereby the officers will get any information and destroy it and there is nothing you will do if they destroy it. Secondly, if we go by the history of the world, countries have been made dictatorial by the security intelligence. The people who will make this country go backwards, is the security intelligence and not anybody else. If they have a view that there is a crime being committed at a particular place, they should inform the CID to take up the role of gathering information and probably ask for the documents required and take the suspects to court. It is not their role to go to court. Another point that has come out very clearly in this Bill when you read it is that they want to take us to the dark days of Mwakenya . During those days, Kenyans were arrested and detained without trial. If a Kenyan was found with a document, he was accused of being in possession of a seditious document. This was treated as a security threat. That was enough evidence to take you to jail for three years. I find it unacceptable because the gains this country has made can be taken away in the name of creating the National Intelligence Service (NIS). As I have said, their role is to gather information. Whatever type of crime it is, be it economic crime or crimes which are criminal in nature, they should not be allowed to tap our phones."
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