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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "content": "work of the police. I may not agree with the way this nomination was done. In that respect, the courts have spoken. The President was given a hand to pick a nominee and bring him for vetting and, because we are charting a new course, personally, I think so far so good. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to say that if approved, and I am asking the House to approve this nominee, he must prove to this country that there was wisdom in constituting an independent Police Service Commission so that it is never again a one man show as was being done by the former Police Commissioner. The former Inspector- General of Police as I said and I still want to say, was a victim of circumstances. I do not think he could have done anything any differently given the selfish nature of politics. He was victimized to sugar-coat a scenario which we all knew was beyond his control. I also want to say that the former Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government, Mr. Joseph ole Lenku, was also sacrificed to show that there was some action but a lot needs to happen. A lot needs to be done so that we can bring confidence to Kenyans and our economy. You saw when we went for the leadership retreat in Mombasa that all those hotels in Mombasa, just because of insecurity, were empty and many of them have closed down. I happen to know a friend who is one of the owners of the hotels in Mombasa and he has not been able to pay his employees for seven months. That is a sad scenario, all because of insecurity. So, the matter before us this afternoon is a matter that we should have dealt with yesterday so that by tomorrow, we have Inspector-General of Police. We need to know what the police are doing to sort out this country once and for all. We also have corruption in the police force. You know until today, the police recruitment process is in court and we need police officers. We need to sort that out. We are not blaming the courts. People are in court because of police corruption. We want the Inspector-General of Police to be working together with the Police Commission to sort this thing once and for all. As far as police recruitment process is concerned, we want to suggest to them that it needs to be constituency-based. I want to know that when they recruit police, how many people will come from Gem Constituency. I want to be there to supervise when they are recruiting, so that people are not recruited from another county while my people run and leave there in anger. It is high time that the Government realised that when people are angry at the Government, it cannot function. The Government must be in the business of making its citizens happy and we will be willing to support the work of the Government in that regard. There is an issue which we hope this Committee, working with the Police Commission, has laid to rest. This is the issue of parallel command. In this country, the AP officers have refused to answer to the Inspector-General of Police and in the words of former Inspector-General of Police, David Kimaiyo, he said he did not know what to do. The law requires the AP boss to report to the Inspector-General of Police."
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