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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "They have been able to catch the policemen who misuse firearms and power. IPOA needs to expand this to police corruption. We still have police officers who collect money from our poor people and police officers who refuse to serve until they are paid. Even in these days of Government leasing vehicles for the police, we still have police officers saying that they do not have fuel. We still have police officers saying they will not respond to an emergency because they do not have vehicles. For both crimes of commission and omission, the police need somebody else to look at their conduct. We need to see whether we have police negligence and where police corruption happens, what action is taken, especially when police corruption is at the higher levels. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am also glad that IPOA is recognising and awarding the best service awards to police officers who show courage, commitment, patriotism and perform heroic acts in defence of our country and her people. It is not just a stick approach. It is both a carrot and stick approach. For all those things, leaving IPOA as an independent institution is the best we can do. There is a very controversial introduction to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill, where it seems to suggest that a CS, or a Government official, can be reappointed without parliamentary vetting. That would also not be allowed. The Justice and Legal Affairs Committee does not agree with that. If any official is going to be appointed in a different capacity with different tasks, they would have to come to the Assembly for vetting, for them to be found suitable for the new tasks, the new appointment and the new job. We cannot transfer vetting. You cannot be vetted for one job and move around with that vetting to several other jobs. Lastly, let me comment on the issue of the Criminal Procedure Code. It is good to have a provision to allow a higher court to look at the issue of bail and bond on very serious crimes. Some of those serious crimes have been set out as robbery with violence, prevention of terrorism, narcotic drugs, organised crime, money laundering and counter-trafficking of persons. In Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, we have added the Sexual Offences Act. We are asking our courts to look at questions of bail and bond in sexual offences as much as possible, especially where it is defilement. It is not right to allow a perpetrator to go out on bail and start affecting victims. On the retirement of judges, this House is very clear. Seventy years is the age of retirement for judges as far as the new Constitution is concerned."
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