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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I rise to support the Report. I want to congratulate the nominee and hope that the House will agree with the Committee. There are so many issues that have been raised and I do not think it is fair to trivialize them, even though we think the nominee is highly qualified. The first thing is that perception of NIS must be dealt with, if we want to have a country where people feel safe. Right now, NIS is generally known to be a political force. Personally, I do not regret the departure of the former head of NIS. I welcome this one and I hope he will act differently. This is because I know the role of NIS in elections. I would have liked this particular report to have come through some structure in the police force. The information that is gathered by the NIS is somehow used not only by the President, but also by the police. There is no channel as to how information from the Director-General, or the NIS, should reach the Inspector-General (IG). As we look into the new structure of the Constitution, I would have loved that this particular Director- General sits in the National Police Service Commission and divulges information relating to intelligence. Right now the Director-General of NIS can get information about stolen chicken in Siaya, and that information is taken to the President. There is an anomaly; this is a force which is misdirected. The information that it is using, or gathering, is going to the wrong places. I would want us to approve the nominee and move on in that direction; we should agree that the structure of intelligence agency and that of the police run parallel. I do not think that as it is, it is helping us. When we were doing the Westgate investigations, the NIS insisted that they had given the police information. However, there was no way of verifying that. So, it was one section of the police blaming the other one. We can sort out all that in a good structure. The NIS must do its work. The things we have seen in the last one year--- How can ordinary people move into Lamu and massacre Kenyans without the NIS knowing? How? How can people be massacred without the NIS knowing? Something has to happen. With regard to the very unfortunate event in Migori on Monday, there is no way the President can go to a place which is not hostile to anybody like Migori and get embarrassed, yet there is an intelligence organ. What is the work of intelligence agency?"
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