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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "This system became liberal to accommodate the views of everybody enough for us to co-exist and exist after 2002. That time may recur if we allow such things. Who knows if somebody wants to victimize you? To be arrested and held indefinitely because somebody feels that they are not satisfied with investigation, that kind of a thing cannot stand the test of law, even though I am not a lawyer. That is a wrong thing. In the 21st Century, nobody, even here in Parliament, could sleep and let something like that pass. On the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, and the Leader of Majority Party took words out of my mouth, I was thinking last night that through this Bill, we are going to do as much as we can to reduce the number of commissioners. Some of these people are in office doing nothing and costing this country money. I hope you will allow me because these commissions have been mentioned here, through that window to make each commission have three to five commissioners. In the intended amendment to this Constitution, we must do away with the so-called Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. You do not need another parallel police force in this country. Let us reform the police force. Let the political class agree that we form and retrain our police officers. Last night, I saw policemen arresting policemen. How ironical that the EACC is at a weighbridge arresting policemen. I thought that something is dysfunctional in our country. An armed person is arrested by an armed person because we have given them these powers. There is no telling what they do to people when the cameras are not there. Now, they want to have powers to look through your bank accounts without going to court. Then why do we have the courts? Why do you want to look into my personal affairs without going to court? What is it that you are hiding? We must look through this. This thing, probably needs to be withdrawn and we look at it soberly because the laws that we are passing are not CORD or Jubilee. These are things which can hurt anybody. I was sitting in my house in Gem one day and then I saw the Member of Parliament for Lari, a jovial man. He did not come here because he was humiliated by police officers on television. They threw him in a Land Rover; a Member of Parliament. Where would a Member of Parliament go if some policeman just takes him with his trousers and throws him in a Land Rover? What could a Member of Parliament do to warrant that kind of treatment or any other Kenyan for that matter? The point is that if the police can do that to a Member of Parliament, what about an ordinary citizen? We need to change a lot of things. We need to do right laws. We have the time, we are paid to do it and we can do it. Lastly, the Political Parties Act, like it or not, accept it or not, we have issues that are causing so much disharmony around our elections. Therefore, at the very least, the Registrar of Political Parties must be somebody that is agreed upon like we did in the primary Act. We agreed. There is an attempt to get rid of the panel which we chose, but the executive of the Coalition Government refused to gazette that panel. We gave names from the political parties, so that each political party is represented in this process. Now, there is an attempt to discard those names. Without gazetting them, now they want to change the law to ask the President to name this person and Parliament approves. I am in CORD and the President is the leader of Jubilee. Since when is it contemplated that the President can choose a member of the ODM to be the Registrar of Political Parties? Some of the people in the Executive are giving the President unnecessary sleepless nights. I know the President personally and I know he did not call for this. I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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