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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I will go to the Refugees Act. We have one million refugees. Did the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ask us about capacity? This Bill is talking about 150,000 because we have signed the Vienna Convention and we cannot run away from it. We must host refugees, but we must host them depending on the capacity of our country. This Bill says that we will limit refugees in our country to 150,000. This number can only be varied by this House. If we have a problem with our neighbours, then the Government will come back to this House and vary the figure of 150,000 refugees. The other issue is the security of tenure of the National Intelligence Service and the police bosses. If I become a president, I will not be in a situation where somebody has security of tenure. Today, under the new Constitution, people say that the buck stops with the President. This is true, but the President should have latitude in the recruitment of the Inspector-General of Police or the Director-General of the National Intelligence Service. His hands are tied, as hon. Wamalwa said this morning when we were vetting Maj-Gen. Nkaissery. If I have security of tenure and the President tells me that there are serious problems in Mandera, I will tell him that I will look into that area. I will tell him that I have heard him and because I have security of tenure, I will do nothing. That is what is happening in Kenya. Where does the buck stop? The buck stops with a person who has no powers. The Committee prepared this document with other stakeholders and I am sure they must have engaged. In my opinion, I will bring a further amendment and say that if 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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