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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am very happy that Sen. G.G. Kariuki is here, listening to this treatise, because he was a full commander, as it were, of the dark forces in the olden days. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to second. I will not cite the provisions of the Constitution or the statutes because Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o has very ably cited them, compared them, contrasted them and shown the way. When we were at Bomas of Kenya and in many other fora, everybody including those who were beneficiaries of the old command regime resonated with one voice; that this country needed a police service and not a police force. The previous police force, in fact, had a motto that tended to falsely mislead the public that they were a service. They called themselves “ Utumishikwa wote;” but they were a force and not a service. In fact there used to be a joke that became a reality when we were in the university; that if you are in trouble in town and you encounter a policeman, even if you are drunk, run as fast as your legs can take you because if you encounter him, your problems will be multiplied. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have come a long way. Section 17 of the Sixth Schedule says that the Provincial Administration should be restructured in five years. We have now done two-and-a-half years since the promulgation of the Constitution, but we cannot see anything on the horizon that shows that the Provincial Administration is going to be restructured. If anything, there is now emboldened capacity for the Provincial Administration to run parallel with devolved system, overshadow the devolved system, undermine it and make it look like devolution was a mistake. I know that the Government may be having great difficulties, and we understand, of where to take these people but The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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