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    "id": 402959,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/402959/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 77,
        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to say at the outset that I am supporting the amendment but as we do this, we must look at the amendments that we are proposing .We must ensure that we do not negate the strides that have been made in the police reforms. We must also ensure that there is citizen participation. The Constitution should neither be compromised nor undermined. We must ensure that we do not reinstate the power imbalances that existed previously. When talking about this, I would like Members to remember the Ransley Report. The Ransley Report highlighted among other concerns police conduct that included violence, extrajudicial killings and other harmful rights and violations. So, even as we consider these amendments, let us find out whether we are giving the powers back to the police, to go back to where they were in the years before. As we also do these amendments, we must ask ourselves; what is the role of the Executive? I am feeling a little bit concerned because in Section 12, it says the appointment and removal of the Inspector General can be done. The Bill proposes to amend this process such that the commission’s role is totally removed; public invitation, interview process or publication of shortlisted candidates. The proposed process is that the President simply nominates his preferred appointee and forwards to Parliament who my then approve or reject the nomination. Further, if Parliament neither approves nor rejects the nomination within 30 days, the nomination will be deemed to be approved. I do not think this is really acceptable. I think this is what we were trying to move away from. Some of the other proposed amendments seek to alter the functions ---"
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