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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir, for allowing me an opportunity to contribute. I enjoin myself with the previous contributions from Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, Sen. Orengo, Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’- Nyong’o and Sen. Musila. Just to wind up on the issue of qualifications, I thank the Chairman for participating in this process but my position remains that it was a flawed process. There should never have been a Joint Sitting between the two Houses. Each House should have vetted the Inspector- General nominee on its own. On the question of qualifications, I fully support what Sen. (Prof.) Anyang- Nyong’o has said but I also want to draw the attention of the House to the degree certificate photocopy that is part of the documentation. Curiously, that degree certificate is not signed by the president of the university, it is probably a forgery I am not saying it is, but it is not signed by the president of the university. I do not believe that, the position for the president of the university to sign was put there to decorate the document. We are being called upon to approve the appointment of a gentleman whom we personally do not know but we go with the records. The police force in this country has had a lot of challenges, you may recall even when the distinguished General Mohammed Ali was taken from the army to the police, there was disquiet, resistance and even sabotage because the rank and file of the police felt that he was an outsider. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the distinction of the candidate here is that he served as a policeman for two years in a very junior position, he has never commanded a base, a division, or any unit of the police. There is no evidence that he has worked at the report office in a police station to gather some experience that can help him run the police force. The process of appointing this gentleman violates the Constitution. The Constitution requires a dual approach in nominating, recruiting and appointing the Inspector- General of Police. If you look at Article 246(3) (a), it was not put there to decorate the Constitution, it states that:- “The National Police Service Commission (NPSC) shall recruit and appoint persons to hold or act in offices in the service, confirm appointments and transfers within the National Police Service” One would then conclude that, the National Police Service (NPS) would competitively recruit, that the President would nominate for appointment, Parliament would vet and then approve the appointment. 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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