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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I have a lot of respect for all those people involved in this nomination; from the President to the Co-Chairs and membership of the Joint Committee; but having said that, I cannot, with a clear conscience, support this nomination. I say this because we are looking for the Inspector-General of the Kenya Police Service; a man who is going to be in charge of the security of this country. Even so, at this time when we have all these security threats by terrorists, it is a very heavy burden that we are placing on the holder of the office that we want to appoint. The big question is: Does the candidate have the necessary experience for this position? I have looked very carefully at the Curriculum Vitae that has been supplied by this Committee in respect to this candidate. His experience in the Police Service includes serving as a junior Inspector of Police for two years in Nyandarua. He left the service and soldiered on to various positions in intelligence and diplomatic services. But there is nowhere, as a previous speaker has said, he was given leadership. Recently, we wanted a Director of Intelligence in this country and this gentleman was serving in the Directorate of Intelligence. If he was qualified, why did he not become the Director of Intelligence? Why did we have to seek Maj-Gen. Kameru from the Army when he was sitting there? There are very serious questions about this nominee. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us talk about the police structure and command. I have been in the service for many years and know how the police work. We have so many Deputy Commissioners of Police who are qualified to take this position. How are the Deputy Commissioners of Police going to feel when they see a junior person coming from the Directorate of Intelligence - not even the Director of Intelligence, but an Assistant Director of Intelligence – to be their boss? We are misplacing this matter. This matter will have a demoralizing effect on the Kenyan Police Service and it will be very difficult to reverse it. Remember when Maj-Gen. Mohamed Husssein Ali was brought into the police force from the Army, it was the first time ever for the police to be commanded by an outsider. The whole police force was demoralized and many things did not work. The post-election violence could not be controlled easily because Maj-Gen. Ali did not have the support of the police force. I am saying this with all honesty. Unless this gentleman is going to perform miracles, he will not perform well in the Kenya Police Service that I know today, with all the senior police officers that he is supposed to command. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have talked about tribalism. We had rallies in the area where this candidate comes from; where the leaders said: “This is our seat and we will not allow it to go elsewhere.” This is common knowledge. That alone shows that this person has been nominated only for tribal interests. If that is the case, it appears to me that some positions have been reserved for certain communities. If this position of Inspector- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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