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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "What I was saying is that we want to provide in Section 8A that the Cabinet Secretary will have a leeway to give instructions to the Inspector-General of Police on matters that are already a subject of Article 245 (4) of the Constitution; why do you want to legislate on that? It can only be for one reason, that is we want to legislate. That way we will remove the provisions or weaken the provisions under Article 245(4)(b) that are clear. I would like hon. Members to take note that there has not been a more serious issue in this country than insecurity. For us to appear as a National Assembly that wants to resolve the issue of insecurity once and for all, first of all we must allow the constitutional institutions, like the constitutional commissions, to work. We have to allow them to retain the powers that have been given to them by the Constitution. We must also realize that this Constitution was passed by consent of all Kenyans. The Constitution envisaged the National Police Service Act, 201. We now want to come back to the same piece of legislation to emasculate a commission provided for in the constitution. I think that is not right. We may want to effect some amendments as it has been proposed, but some of them are undesirable. This Assembly will be judged by its actions and the legislation it passes. It does not matter which side of the divide we are on; the national police service is a national institution, and we are the people who are supposed to protect it. Kenyans are looking upon us to make sure that 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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