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    "id": 596116,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/596116/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2256,
        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "The IPOA is a very important constitutional body in our country. It must balance when investigating officers who are on duty and those who have abused their positions. If you go out today to meet our security officers, you will find that they do not have the confidence they had before. They cannot discharge their duties in a very confident way because on one side there are human rights and on the other side there is the IPOA. They should not fear that the IPOA will investigate them. These are people who are going to arrest terrorists and criminals. They are armed and you cannot arrest them with your bare hands. We should ensure that our officers are not intimidated by the IPOA. On the Universities Act, which the Leader of the Majority withdrew from the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill because it is a substantive law, this is an area where there is serious confusion. I like the way the Leader of the Majority said that it should not come as a miscellaneous amendment, but as a substantive law. As I speak, many bodies are managing and regulating various faculties in universities and this has really caused confusion given the fact that we also have the Commission of University Education, which has a mandate in this area. If you look at the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS), you will find that there is confusion. There is need to amend this law to restrict this body to the universities and colleges under the Ministry of Education. There was a tussle on admission at the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) and as of today, students who were admitted are yet to report because of the court cases and wrangles between the KUCCPS and the college. We need to make the law very clear, so that the KUCPB is restricted to colleges and universities under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and not any other Ministry. This House appropriates money for the KMTC through the Ministry of Health and the same money cannot be used by another Ministry like the Ministry of Education. Immigration laws are also in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. This is another area which requires serious amendments. The rampant insecurity in the country is as a result of weak and poor immigration laws. Many people have acquired passports and IDs illegally and we are later told that these are criminals in the country. It is worth noting how work permits are issued at the Immigration Department. There is a serious loophole and we need laws to provide vetting before people are issued with work permits or citizenship of this country. I support that the immigration laws should provide that the Immigration Department should co-operate with the security agents in the country to ensure that we know what businesses these people have come to do in our country before we issue them with work permits."
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