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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": " This nominee because she is not yet appointed. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for correcting me. This nominee served previously at the IEBC. On that account, some Members want to paint this nominee in bad light because of duties that she performed as a legal officer at the IEBC. This House should not be reduced to a House of mob justice where nominees are presented to this House and we condemn them because of duties that they performed while they were representing corporate entities that are legal entities in themselves. The IEBC at the time had serving commissioners. If the matter that was in court was an electoral issue, the IEBC also had a returning officer. As such, this individual was not appearing in her personal capacity, but as a legal officer of the legal entity called the IEBC. If there had been a legal conflict as singled out by a Member here, this conflict was not personal to Ms. Praxedes Chepkoech Tororey. That cannot be used to demean her personality or even single her out as a person not fit for appointment to this Authority. The IEBC as a Commission also had a secretariat that had its own head. Before we go for the person who was just a mere legal officer, we can see the pecking order in this organisation. This nominee cannot be condemned for a role that she played while representing this organisation. Collectively, the nominees - if appointed - will have a momentous task on their shoulders. The issue of extrajudicial killings comes to mind. In Dagoretti South Constituency, we have been unfortunate to suffer repeated cases of extrajudicial killings that have made it to the national headlines. In such instances, one wonders where they would report the police to because you cannot report an offender to themselves. As such, IPOA will be a critical body in policing the police. The nominees - if appointed - will be serving at a time when Kenya will be looking up to them after the first dispensation of the first nominees to the Authority. Kenyans will be looking up to them with such high hopes that they will restore the glory of the police force. We would like to get into a dispensation where our young people, when asked what they want to be when they grow up, will say that they would love to serve in the police force. I support the approval of the nominees for appointment as Chairperson and members of IPOA. His Excellency, the President, was wise in the way he appointed the nominees considering regional representation and gender balance. Added to that, there is some good work The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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