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    "id": 363486,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Report. I will take very few minutes to contribute. First, I want to thank the President. I am sure my very good friend, hon. Nkaissery, today is a happy man. This is because when his Excellency the President appointed the first batch of the 16 Cabinet Secretaries; hon. Nkaissery did not know how the Jubilee Government works. He did not know that the nominee for most serious docket was to come from his county. Hon. Speaker, I want to say that Mr. ole Lenku has the qualifications and the character to lead that Ministry. I say so because when His Excellency the President appointed Mr. Macharia to head the Ministry of Health, there were murmurs from doctors that he was not a technocrat from that Ministry. What we need at the level of a Cabinet Secretary is a manager, policy advisor and formulator. I am sure that the Committee and the House will agree with me that in terms of qualification, Mr. ole Lenku has the best papers. In terms of his track record, he has led very successful enterprises in the hospitality industry. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I want to touch on something that Mr. Lenku must look at; the Constitution and the Police Service Act that this House created. If you look at Article 244 of the Constitution on the objects and functions of the National Police Service, that Article has given the National Police Service Commission the power to recruit, promote and transfer. Hon. Speaker, Sir, Article 246 (3) creates the National Police Service and states as follow:- “The Commission shall– (a) recruit and appoint persons to hold or act in offices in the service, confirm appointments, and determine promotions and transfers within the National Police Service.” If you go back and look at the role of the Inspector-General, at Article 245 (2) (b) it says as follows:-"
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