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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "content": "and help this new dispensation--- We all have a duty because we supported the new Constitution. When we got to Kamukunji Police Station, it was laughable that nobody could talk to us for about five minutes. Then Aladwa was put in another car with police armed with AK47 guns and told that they were going to the Airport Police. From there we were to go to Machakos. I told my driver: “Block this guy. We are going nowhere. We are Kenyans. If this is what it is, let us do it.” What we saw there--- The County Women Representative for Vihiga County had her blouse torn at Kamukunji Police Station by a police officer. Shame on a man or a woman who touches a woman’s breast in public without her permission. We are going to make a claim with the same IPOA. The Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) of Kamukunji said things I want to repeat here. We will see him in court because he cannot work as a tribal police officer. It is a sad thing. The only body in this country that can stop that is the IPOA. You cannot deny it the power which Kenyans, in their own wisdom, gave in the Constitution. There is the issue of the Deputy Inspector-General of Police. Madam Kaindi has been kicked out but there is this imagination that she can be replaced by a man while the Constitution says that of the three, the Inspector-General (IG) and the two deputies, one must be from either gender; at least one. I do not know how English is hard that a whole Government with all the resources cannot interpret the meaning of “at least one person of the three being of either gender”. I do not understand that. My opinion is that somebody somewhere wants to use a law like this to deny Kenyans their hard-earned Constitution. However, we are not going to play along and take it. There is no way you can deny the women of this country even that one slot in the senior position in the police. Even that one, people have to go to the street. People have to go to court for it to be brought to Parliament to authenticate. To me, that is embarrassing and shameful. We cannot do that and we must not do that as a country. If you look at what this “thing” purports to do, you will find that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs only tabled a report which Hon. Gichigi helped us this afternoon by saying that it was not even there by the time we came to Parliament. We need time to read it but there are some sections here, particularly the section that seems to take power from the Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK) and take it to the Competition Authority. Such issues need to be discussed. You just cannot take power away. We know the debate that is going on now about a dominant company in business. If a company grows very big in business, you usually split it and let it play by some rules. We know there is a war between Safaricom and Airtel and we need an explanation. I want to beg the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information, Hon. Jamleck Kamau, to allow the Cabinet Secretary who has sent letter to the Committee, which I want to table, protesting that they are against these amendments--- They have not been consulted and it is not too late to consult. Let us always not be adversarial. Sometimes we can find consensus and I want to plead with Hon. Jamleck to call the stakeholders to a meeting. Let us see where this war is because it is the duty of Parliament to mitigate. I want to tell you that there was a time there was a fierce war when I was in the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade between a locally owned company called “Keroche” and Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL). It was such a big war but we decided, as a Committee, to call them. We said:- “Let us talk together. After all both of you pay taxes to the Government of Kenya and both of you employ Kenyans.” 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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