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    "id": 726871,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "it has brought changes, it has indicated that it can deliver services to the people better and near to the people but a lot more could have been achieved. Even the little which has been achieved has been achieved at a very high cost. The main problem, the way I see it, is that we put in place constitutionally what we should have done in the Fourth Schedule. We put an Act of Parliament- Transition to Devolved Government Act- then created the Transition Authority but anybody who dares to read those documents will realise how little we used them. We threw them to the side and moved on. That is responsible for the many problems we are seeing. Even the corruption we are seeing and we are talking about at the county level is because we did not work systematically to put in place structures. Human beings left on their own without structures and check system, will always go the wrong way. We needed to have done that. Talking of corruption, that is something we really need to look at. In terms of fulfilment of international obligations, there has been a lot of effort. But two things have come out that as a country we have to look at. The push by this country to get out of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has depicted us in bad light. What we saw when our Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary, a very able lady indeed, failed to achieve the Chair of the AU is an indication that we should have done that. In the issue of national security, if you look at our institutions, we have the best security structures in place. We have the National Security Council, the Defence Council, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), the National Police Service (KPS), Kenya Police Service (KPS), Administrative Service, but all these are not integrated and the information does not flow. Every time we have a problem, we get that the information was available but was not used."
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