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    "content": "Therefore, I join those who say that the Director-General should not be subjected to parliamentary approval because if we have elected a President and we have confidence in him or her, then we should give him or her the leeway to get somebody that he or she can trust somebody when he advises the President, because one of the roles of this institution is to advise the President, the President will take that information as genuine and he or she will not take it with any kind of suspicion because it is him who looked upon the necessary provisions of the law for a competent person with integrity that is required according to Article 73. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not think the rights that they have gained have been taken away because the Director-General is subjected to Article 73. He is subjected to Article 24 of the Constitution of Kenya which retains all the freedoms that have been given. I do agree that the officers in this service must be armed. They should be armed because how do you go gathering intelligence and when you find somebody is about to commit an act that will be disastrous to the country, you cannot arrest him and you have no powers or way of preventing that action from happening? I believe that they should have powers to arrest and powers to have firearms, but they should not have prosecutorial powers because that is vested on the DPP. Once we hand over whoever has been arrested to the DPP, then the DPP has no option other than to prosecute that person who has been handed over. I think the amendment we should make is such that whoever is handed over to the DPP by these people is prosecuted by the DPP. Otherwise, I also believe this body should be independent of manipulation from any quarters. Therefore, for this to happen, they should have a one line-budget. They do not go about soliciting for votes from the Budget Committee and Members of Parliament. They should get their money and use it for the intelligence of the country. If the organization does not live up to the expectations of Kenyans, then there should be a way of removing them because they are underperforming but we cannot control their budget. Once we control their budget, then we will not be giving them the freedom---"
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