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    "id": 511156,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "approach. It is very important that we go that way as it has been suggested by the Leader of Majority Party. If we do not go that way what I can say is that these amendments can only be described as a poisoned chalice. This is a very dangerous medicine that the Chairman of the Committee and the Government want to serve to Kenyans. If these amendments pass as they are, this country will witness darkness at noon. They will see darkness at midday. This country was given sunshine by the new Constitution that was promulgated in 2010. If these amendments go through as they are, this will be a suggestion by the Government to throw all the gains that have been made by this country through the new Constitution to the last bit. If you look at amendments that are being proposed in this Bill, if today hon. Wangari Maathai was alive, she would have been declared a terrorist, I can assure you. Rev. Timothy Njoya would have been declared a terrorist. Hon. Speaker, these amendments, as you see them, are basically meant to circumvent and to hide the incompetence, the laxity, the malaise and all the problems of the people who are responsible for the security of this country and who have abdicated their obligations. It has only one intention to achieve; to hide their incompetence. That is the only thing that these amendments are meant to achieve. This country is not short of laws to protect Kenyans. There are many laws to protect this country but the corruption and the incompetence that is mainly in the security system is what has made this country go down the drain in insecurity system. I suggest that unless serious amendments are considered to this Bill, I do not think Kenyans will take it lying low. When the drafters of the new Constitution gave tenure of office to the Inspector-General of police, they had very valid reasons. They wanted to have a civilian police. They wanted to have a police that they have faith in. We are being taken back to the political police of the yesteryears of KANU where the Inspector- General is nothing but mnyapara of the President. We are not going to allow to be taken back to those days where you cannot differentiate between the bodyguard of the President and the Police Commissioner; |they are one and the same. The Inspector-General must have tenure of office. This is a regime that is allergic to anything called tenure of office. They want all constitutional offices to be reporting to the President and that will make this country ungovernable. They do not want any---"
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