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    "id": 416410,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "When 50 policemen were killed in Baragoi, no NGO made a lot of noise or went to court. It is like they were dogs which were killed. However, if one Kenyan is shot by a policeman, the whole country is turned upside down. We are saying that those people need our support. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, vetting is going on and we have seen a number of officers being thrown out of the Police Force. Therefore, I want to say that by giving the Inspector-General (I-G) that operational decision-making, we are going to assist him. An hon. Member talked about the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Even at the TSC; there is that person who runs the organization on a day-to-day basis. That is because if you start saying that everything must go to the Commission, you are creating a bureaucracy and yet, the policeman need to do that work at that particular minute and a decision has to be made. But if you wait for a Commission to make a decision after a week or a month, lives will be lost and many decisions will not be made. That will aggravate the problem. Therefore, these amendments are actually meant to give the I-G’s office that mandate of taking action as problems arise. We have not gone out of what the stakeholders had told us. They gave information and they told us what is wrong; including even the Cabinet Secretary’s involvement in decision-making. We were told what to remove and we removed it. Therefore, we need to support the police so that issues of two or three command centres in the county or even in the constituency do not arise. That is because the I-G will be making decisions to ensure that the buck stops with only one person at the constituency and even at the county level. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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