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    "id": 518725,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can be quite nasty if I want to be but I do not want to be today because this is very important. We are talking about the person who is going to take care of the security and the lives of 40 million Kenyans. In doing this, we must avoid wearing blinkers of ethnicity, narrow minded regionalism and all manner of things. For me, it does not matter if the appointed person came from the smallest community, the Elmolo or any other community. The statistics show that the Elmolos are the least in numbers. If we want to have a country, it is very dangerous for the Jubilee Regime to start driving this country- and we have said over and over, “kupinga ukabila si ukabila” and we will continue saying this. Kenyans are asking themselves and they have the right to ask as the alternative Government: “Is it fair and just that when somebody leaves office you have to go to his village to appoint a replacement, however qualified?” That is a dangerous direction to take. Equally, I want to tell this House that sometimes you get overawed and think that numbers are right, numbers can be very wrong and very misleading. If you look at this Curriculum Vitae (CV), that this gentleman worked in an embassy and somebody extravagantly said here, that he was leading a team of intelligence at the embassy. At every embassy, if there is any intelligence officer, there is only one officer, there is no team to lead. It is only one officer who goes there and we know what they do. That has nothing to do with the security challenges we are having in this country. Equally important is the fact that we have very senior seasoned officers in the police who have served in the rank and file, in positions to be appointed, but because they come from communities that are not in the favour of the Jubilee Regime today, then you see what we are doing here. I want to tell this House that I will be the first to vote for Mr. Boinett as the Inspector- General of Police if he has the requisite experience, qualifications and all that it takes to be an Inspector- General. I opined that he does not. Why does he not have?"
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