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    "id": 683724,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A. B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force) (Repeal) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.39 of 2015) be read a Second Time. The Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force) Act is a pre-independence Act. It is a colonial Act and it is outdated. It was enacted in 1937 and it creates the Kenya Regiment which was a reserve force that was to complement the British Army at that time. That reserve force which consisted of white settlers was disbanded at the eve of our Independence. As we speak, there is no legal framework for the establishment of a regiment to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). There is a new legal framework through the Kenya Defence Forces Act that establishes the KDF and, of course, its regular, volunteer and auxiliary reserves. So, the KDF Act has taken care of this old colonial Act. The Act is, therefore, superfluous. What this Bill is trying to do is to repeal it. We do not understand why previous Governments did not think of this. Under the new Constitution, I am sure this is one of the pieces of legislations that are in place, but are of no use to the citizens of this country or even the KDF. This Bill seeks to repeal that subsidiary piece of legislation that was made under the Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force) Act. There is no intention to replace this Act to preserve the continued application of a subsidiary legislation under Section 24 of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act. This is a small piece of legislation. It has been lying in the National Assembly since June, 2015. It has only one reason and that is why it is a very small Bill. I think it is just a one-page Bill. It wants to repeal the Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force), a stand-by force which was used by the British colonial power, as I said, since 1937. Under the new Constitution, we have the KDF Act. For the police and the other arms of security, we have the National Police Service (NPS) and the National Police Service Commission (NPSC). So, this law which has just been in existence has been serving nobody. Nobody has been using the Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force). It is a subsidiary piece of legislation within the Kenya Regiment (Territorial Force) Act. Because there is no intention to replace it, the framers of the Constitution and the Office of the Attorney-General felt that this is redundant, superfluous and we must remove it from our laws. It is a small Bill. I am sure we will not take much time on it. As I move, I ask the Hon. Member for Kajiado West who is a man of God, priest, bishop and a man of the collar to second."
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