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    "id": 449745,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/449745/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Chairlady. I wish to support this amendment as proposed by the President. The arguments being floated on why we should have the Inspector-General (IG) as the accounting officer are really not valid. That is because the President’s explanation is that there is need for separation of powers. If you look at the police reforms which we are trying to implement, we are moving to a situation where, already, the IG of Police is quite independent of the Office of the President (OP). So, the problems at OP, as hon. Mbadi is saying, are soon going to be matters of the past. The accounting officer needed is going to be located within the Police Force and all we are saying is that the I-G cannot double those two functions. Let him be in charge of operations. But let there be a separate person who is the Accounting Officer and, if possible, a civilian. That is how to address issues of governance and the problem of misallocation of resources is very likely going to be sorted that way."
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