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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion on the appointment of Mr. Joseph Kipchirchir Boinnet. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. I had an opportunity of sitting through the vetting process. Some of the things that came out in that vetting process are food for thought for this House. We need to start considering some of the laws that we have. A lot of issues came up. In fact, we were forced to have a consensus as to how we were going to move forward. One of the issues that came up has to do with the Section 11(1) (b) of the National Police Service Act. It states that as qualification for the position of Inspector-General of Police, the nominee must be a Kenyan citizen and a holder of a degree certificate recognized in the country. The one which brought a lot of issues is the one of being a holder of a Masters Degree. If one has that degree, should he be considered under that National Police Act as having a degree? A lot of issues were raised about the first degree and the Masters Degree. As a House, we need to start thinking as to whether we must be very specific or not. If a person has a Masters Degree and the qualification needed by law is a degree, then, we need to take that into consideration. There are some professions like the accounting profession where, if somebody is a holder of CPA(K), he can go directly and do a Masters Degree. If he is going to be denied an opportunity just because he does not have a post-graduate certificate or the first degree, then these are the issues that we need to look into. Secondly, the Standing Orders do not give an indication as to whether we should be having a Joint Committee of the National Assembly and the Senate. This brought out a lot of issues. Is that backed by any of the Standing Orders? It was as a result of the intervention of the two Speakers that it was decided that the two Committees should sit jointly and come up with a report. That is something that we need to look into. How do The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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