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    "id": 697498,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/697498/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "inclusion because witnesses testify in courts. So, if we do not have the Registrar of the High Court or of the Judiciary here, we are missing an important person in this board. The other member of this board is the Director-General. In the earlier Bill, they call him the Director of National Security Intelligence Service who is also an important person to sit in this board. Now, the terminology is the “Director-General of the National Intelligence Service.” That is purely terminology and of course, the Commissioner of Police. We do not have a Commissioner of Police now. What we have is the Inspector-General of the National Police Service. So this amendment is about terminology. Of course, we have the Commissioner of Prisons who is today the Commissioner-General of Prisons. That is another amendment. The other two are the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Chairperson of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). I want to say something about the DPP. The DPP is the one who procures and brings witnesses to court. He is the person who prosecutes. As you know, until recently and we still have that problem, Kenyan courts, particularly the lower courts, are prosecuted by police prosecutors. So, the contradiction here is that the police are the ones who arrest a suspect. Then the police come with the suspect and give evidence but---"
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