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    "id": 595885,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/595885/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Basically, this is an NGO that is concerned with police reforms. They also had an opportunity to interact with the Commission where the Commissioner was conspicuously missing in all the five meetings that they held with the Commission. That is how they came to write this Petition. They had dome some research regarding the issue. I want to thank Hon. Nyokabi, the Women Representative for Nyeri County, for her participation and one of the questions that we raised to the petitioners was whether they had access to information under Article 44 and whether they sought information from the Commission in writing. We did not want them to tell us that they tried without anything in writing to show that they sought information. They raised some very fundamental issues and that will be addressed by the Bill that is before the House which was brought by Hon. Nyokabi. If you want information from a certain institution, how do you get it? They told us that they could not seek information because they did not know where to get it from formally. They wondered whether they should have gone to the Commission or the National Police Service (NPS). We totally agreed with them that access to information needed some legislation, so that even if you place a letter in a certain office, then it can be treated as having reached where it was supposed to have gone. It is important for us to look at the National Police Service Commission Act and through Hon. Nyokabi’s Bill, we can do this."
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