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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Secondly, about the Commissioner himself, we even tried to find out his age. The National Police Service Commission Act stipulates that commissioners can only be there for a term of six years non-renewable. This Commissioner has not been there for three years from 2013. When we were asking about his age, we were told that he is just slightly above 84 years. Again, the age factor came in. This is a very hard working officer. Under Article 246, he represents one of the retired police officers from the Administration Police and the success of the AP has been attributed to him. It is unfortunate that he came from the APTC a long time ago and there are many people who were with him at the college when he started some very wonderful programmes at the AP College. As Hon. Maanzo has just said, it is true that he fell sick while on duty in New York and he had to be airlifted back to the country. He spent about four months in hospital and it was very sad. They tried to reach him so that he could also give guidance regarding early retirement. At that time, we had two memoranda, but they were supposed to be in sworn affidavits. We got two letters from two gentlemen who were pleading with the Committee to retire him on medical ground. As we have already said, we looked at our mandate and we could only deal with the prayer that had been done by the petitioners and we could not go beyond that. That was not within our mandate. As I have rightly indicated under Article 251(5), maybe the tribunal might do that when it is formed."
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