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    "id": 670492,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/670492/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "We have had a history with the AP. The Leader of the Majority Party is laughing but it is not about the teargas. The manner in which the AP is operating is like Articles 238, 239 and 243 of the Constitution say nothing. Those provisions state that the police shall be impartial and shall not further the political interest or cause of an individual, any side or prejudice any other. We are seeing an AP force whose command we do not understand where it is coming from. We must take up this matter to see additional reforms we should undertake in our National Police Service and not the National Police Force as it was. A short while ago, I proposed a legislation to stop police vetting. It was, however, defeated. The repeated one was, of course, rejected and I think rightly so because it had been previously defeated. When you remove over 300 people serving in the police service at once in the manner we did through vetting; when you remove people who have trained on the use of firearms and whose livelihoods have been feeding on the job and take them outside, you are building a parallel dark force to the regular police apparatus. We are sending out there people who have been trained on how police officers deal with crime, how they react, the length of time they take and the strategies they apply. Hon. Speaker, I may be wrong, but this nation will soon agree with me. We are developing a dark police force. It will not be possible for our people to control it. I will be happy if we stop vetting police officers and their matters dealt with internally through the existing disciplinary procedure within the police. This is the manner they were dealt with before."
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