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    "id": 894320,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Koinange",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Koinange",
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    "content": "The Constitution gives the IG of the NPS exclusive mandate in respect of independent command over the Service. He is in charge of the Police Service, the Administration Police Service and the DCI. He is responsible for rewarding and disciplining police officers, especially the ones in lower ranks. It has become common to see police officers engage in crime, including armed robberies, like many Members have mentioned here today. Of course, there are very good officers and I urge them to continue to be ambassadors of change in the NPS. The cancer of taking bribes by police officers appears to be deeply rooted that the two immediate former IGs failed to deal with the menace. It cannot be that even children as young as seven years know that traffic police officers demand and receive bribes from road users and yet the IG does not. It is very ridiculous. As members of the public, we shall continue demanding that the new IG of deals with the corruption menace within the Police Service once and for all. 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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