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    "id": 407123,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/407123/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyasuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to speak on this Bill, which I oppose. From my reading of this Bill and the partner Bill, that of the National Police Service Commission (Amendment) Bill, what I see as the long and short of these Bills is to restrict the powers of the National Police Service Commission, while expanding the powers of the Inspector General, improving his security of tenure and introducing powers for the Cabinet Secretary to control the Commission. As a House, we must look at where the Police Service has come from and the genesis and dire need this country had for police reforms. We all remember the 2007 post election violence, where over 1,000 Kenyans lost their lives, over 100,000 properties destroyed and over 350,000 people displaced. We must remember why police reforms became an agenda item. It is because there was a strong feeling---"
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