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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, and I also would like to wish you and my colleagues a happy New Year. I hope this New Year will herald good things for this Parliament and the country. Hon. Speaker, I have only three points that I want to address myself to on this National Police Service (Amendment) Bill. You will recall that I have made certain observations in the past, more so when we were discussing the National Police Service Commission (Amendment) Bill, and you gave various rulings on this matter which I agree with and I have to abide by. Looking at this Bill, you see a continuation and perpetuation of the violation of the Constitution through and through. Today, I will only point out two issues. One is the issue of disciplinary control over the Police Service. It is very clear that this power is vested by the Constitution in the National Police Service Commission under Article 246(3)(b). This Article gives the National Police Service Commission exclusive powers to exercise disciplinary control over the National Police Service. What this National Police Service (Amendment) Bill is attempting to do is obviously to transfer those powers from the National Police Service Commission to the Inspector-General. Indeed, if you look at the new Section 8A in this Bill it is attempting to redefine the meaning of disciplinary control in a clever way really, and the upshot is that this Bill contravenes the Constitution. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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