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    "id": 307400,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kibet Koech",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this very important Bill. This is a very important department in the Republic of Kenya. For any nation that wants to progress, this is the most important service. The NSIS in this country provides a lot of information to various departments, but action is never taken. I want to call upon the Government that it is time they took information from this department very seriously, so that we can have a stable country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, regarding the functions of the Service, if the entire service performs these functions to the letter, I believe that we will be able to get very far. One of the functions is to detect potential threats to this country. We have various threats in this country. For example, in the Ministry of Education, there are threats to the Kenya National Examinations Council in form of leakages of examinations, which must be handled very urgently and in time, so that we do not see most of our children, who have been in school for four or eight years, losing their examination results. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you look at the qualification of the Director- General or the other directors, it is not proper to criminalize one of the arms of Government by saying that, if one is and has been a Member of Parliament or has been a county assembly member, he or she cannot qualify to be a director. That indirectly is criminalizing this very important institution. If one has held any office in a political party, he or she is also barred. My understanding is that if my party wins an election, the officials of my party are the most trusted people who can give me information. So, this is an area that requires amendment so that we can ensure that for the post of the DG or the other directors, any other Kenyan can be there. This is an institution that is supposed to operate in secrecy. It is an institution that is expected to be incognito in every part and department. I will not be surprised if one of the Members of Parliament here is one of the intelligence people. That is because it is important that they are present, just like God whom we always say is omnipresent in"
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