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    "content": "This Inspector-General, we want to appoint him in circumstances where we have found the previous Inspector-General wanting and that is why he did not serve his full tenure. He had a protected tenure of six years. Why was the previous Inspector-General not allowed to fulfill his performance for those six years? In appointing the new Inspector-General, has he shown himself to be such a person who will perform so that the failures that were experienced under the other Inspector-General will not be repeated? These are exceptional circumstances. We are even made to go through a process where we have to put new Acts of Parliament to provide for exceptional circumstances in this country that is suffering from the threat of terrorism. Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at all those things in totality, I am looking at this Report, I do not understand why we removed Mr. Kimaiyo from being the Inspector- General of Police. Looking at the professional experience of this particular person in the police force; he is said to have served as a cadet inspector in the police between 1984 and 1986. That is his experience in the mainstream police force. That is the experience that he wants to use to manage the entire security sector as the Inspector-General of Police. I think that there is something wrong; we are appointing an Inspector-General of Police of the Republic of Kenya. I do not care where he comes from. I have said this before about former President Moi. When it came to some sectors, he never bowed to tribalism. When it came to things to do with security and finance, he never advanced an ethnic cause. That I can grant to him and I can repeat it because it is not the first time I am saying it. However, looking at what is happening in major appointments, we are looking forward to who is going to be the Central Bank Governor. I can tell you that one of the things that make nations go into conflict is something called exclusion. You may not do anything wrong but the fact that day in day out when appointments are made, they go in a particular direction. The Senator for Mombasa County is going to speak for himself about that."
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