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    "id": 380202,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang-Nyong’o",
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        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "But, nonetheless, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these are some of the things that we were really, as a Tenth Parliament, trying to cure, in the sense that we wanted to separate all these rights that exist among personnel in the police force which should be preserved by the Commission from the command of the police, which exists in the Inspector-General (IG) of Police. He has to command them, he has to tell them when to report on duty, how to dress, how to behave if they misbehaved in the field; how to handle their guns and so on, and so forth – that is the professional running of the police. Just like when it comes to the armed forces, there is an armed forces body which appoints and promotes, not chaired by the head of the army, but by the President, which is another body all together. So, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these things must be separated, and the debate currently going on and the amendments being proposed on both the Police Service Commission Act and the Police Service Act are actually misguided and mischievous. Really, what they should do is to look at the Constitution very carefully, not just at the part that deals, as I said, with the Police Service Commission and the Inspector-General of Police, but the fundamental article, which is Article 1(4)(a) and (b). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and request Sen. Wetangula to second me."
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