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    "id": 442639,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I join my colleagues in congratulating Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki for a well thought out Motion which I support. One of the omissions that I think we did when we were formulating our Constitution was in the area that we are discussing now. The National Police Service (NPS) is overstretched and wherever we go all over the world, there is nowhere that the national police take responsibility of the metropolitan areas. You always have a special police with unique issues in that area that takes care of security and other related functions. So, this is an appropriate opportunity for us to correct something that we forgot. The law also gave us the opportunity or the right to be doing laws wherever we find gaps. I think we can all see that this is a major gap. Before I come specifically to Nairobi, I want to say that we will also need this police force in a metropolitan setting not confined to Nairobi because we have other cities with similar challenges like Nairobi, Kisumu and Eldoret. I think we should put a cap that whenever a metropolitan becomes a city, then it qualifies to have metropolitan police because any area that is declared a city will definitely have some security challenges like the ones we are dealing with in Nairobi. We should not just consider Nairobi and tomorrow we start talking about Mombasa. I think we must have a formula that after you are declared a city you qualify to have a metropolitan police. At the moment, Governors are at the mercy of the national police even on implementing things that they can. For example, too many informal settlements are coming up in our cities. In Nairobi, for example, people just come and start in a small way, they construct a banda and the following morning another and then it becomes a slum. The city inspectorate police may not really have the power to arrest that situation. If we had the metropolitan police with full police arresting, investigating and prosecution The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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