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    "id": 490062,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gethenji",
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        "legal_name": "James Ndungu Gethenji",
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    "content": "On the particulars of the candidate, I think it was the considered opinion of the entire Committee that the candidate presented an outstanding curriculum vitae. The candidate, as it is outlined in the Report, has three Masters degrees in security intelligence. He is highly qualified and trained in the field of intelligence, and also in the fields of military and security services. This candidate was found by our Committee to be the most senior security intelligence officer in the Republic of Kenya, and was certainly without competition within his current position in the Kenya Defense Forces. He has served in the KDF for 36 years and during seven of those years he has served in the position of the Director of Military Intelligence (DMI), a position which has seen him move from strength to strength and gather enough experience. Particularly, he served in Somalia where the KDF played a central role in the war against the Al Shabaab. The DMI and his department played an important role in providing intelligence information to allow the KDF forces to play their role effectively as the KDF; he also enabled the AMISOM to achieve the great successes and gains that they have achieved to date. We interrogated the candidate on his intentions for the National Intelligence Service, on his abilities and his future plans. It came out very clearly that this candidate had a very clear vision for the direction in which he wants the National Intelligence Service to take, and in particular in the challenges that are facing this country in the areas of security intelligence and general security. The candidate was very clear and forthright; it was put by our Members that we did not want to see a continuance of the blame game that we have seen in the past within the intelligence and security sector. It was important for the candidate to outline to us, which he did in a clear and forthright manner, his intentions and plans in order to ensure that the blame game that we have witnessed in the past will not be witnessed again in the future. Hon. Speaker, the candidate, on interrogation, indicated areas that--- Apart from the obvious area of terrorism where Kenya is suffering, particularly in the areas of drug trafficking and terrorism--- We put it to the candidate that the obvious security threat is terrorism and little attention nowadays is being paid to the areas of drug trafficking and contraband in wildlife. The candidate was very clear that he intends, within a very short space of time, to assist the other security agencies in the country to make sure that Kenya falls off the international drug trafficking and also the international wildlife products smuggling and trafficking maps. He appealed to this Committtee and the House in general to assist the NIS in their endeavours. He undertook to, within the shortest time possible, return to the august House and present a report on his successes. He invited the Members of this House through the Committee to challenge him, should he be appointed to the position, on his successes in the near future."
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