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    "id": 511032,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/511032/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
        "slug": "david-eseli"
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    "content": "We have a real security problem but there is a bit of insincerity in the way this Bill has been introduced in the House, in the sense that when we came here in the morning, it was even listed for Committee of the whole House this afternoon. This was going to happen, long before the taking of the views from the public had been done. How are we going to do amendments in the Committee of the whole House? There was a bit of insincerity here and I think that insincerity can raise a lot of suspicion. I will only quote one part of this Bill, and I hope my colleagues will listen. When you go to Clause 62, it says: “The National Intelligence Service Act is amended by inserting the following new section immediately after section 6.” This means an officer of the Service may detain any person whom the officer witnesses engaging in a serious offence or finds in possession of any object or material that could be used for the commission of a serious offence. That is good. I want to remind this House, as I did yesterday, when we moved the Procedural Motion to reduce the publication period that the late hon. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga moved this House to pass the law on detention without trial and he---"
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