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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am sorry. Sometimes this confusion can be excused. The day has been long. I have gone through this Report very meticulously and I have got issues that I need to raise for purposes of the record. I know this House will approve his nomination. I can foresee that. However, I want to clearly go on record that I have got serious issues with this Report. Firstly, Mr. Boinnet joined the police force sometime in 1984, going by this Report. He worked for close to two or three years before he joined the then dreaded Special Branch which mutated into the current National Intelligence Service (NIS). On that score, if you asked me, this was a very good candidate for promotion to the office of the Director-General of NIS at some future date. Having said that, there is a principle of command in terms of seniority in the security sector. If that person was a civilian, there would be no issue. However, since he worked in the police service and spent most of his time in the intelligence sector, there is a lot of concern as to whether he is able to muster the moral authority to command people who are essentially his seniors. There are hundreds of police officers in the NPC who are his seniors. That is a question that needs to be addressed. It has been glossed over by the Joint Committee because they were under pressure to endorse his nomination. There is the issue of his academic qualifications. This issue has also been glossed over. However, Observation No. 7 in Chapter 6 of the Report of the Joint Committee reads:- “Washington International University is recognised by UNESCO despite not being recognised in its country of origin. This observation was 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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