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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Kabogo, can you listen to this so that you could also confirm it. Indeed, the officer arrested people who were bribing others, which is an offence on an election day. The reason why he commended him and on the next day demoted him has little to do with his own performance, but more to do with political expediency of the day. The Chair is able to understand the political climate that we occasionally find ourselves in. It is for those reasons that the Chair is also satisfied that every Kenyan, be it an hon. Member, a Minister, or otherwise is entitled to his or her own rights. Indeed, this officer, as his letter indicates here and which is his appeal and which is very exhaustive--- The letter actually says that in the polling stations, especially the stadium, there were observers from the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS), Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC), reporters, contenders, voters and so on. None of these people said that this officer was drank. Then it begs why it is only one officer who saw him drank. Under those circumstances, the Chair is not going to entertain any further ping pong on this Question and the rights of Kenyans and at the same time on the dignity and integrity of the disciplined force. If, indeed, the officer committed the alleged offence, then he deserved to be disciplined. If, however, he did not commit the offence and this is just an excuse to punish him for having done his job diligently--- We are politicians. You are an Assistant Minister and you come from one divide of the political spectrum. An officer is a civil servant who is supposed to do his duties in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of the land and not because certain politicians in senior places want him to do this or that. The Chair will now direct the relevant Departmental Committee to investigate this matter with speed and in a maximum of two weeks, to table that report."
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