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    "id": 936966,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Shamalla Jennifer",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Keter",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I rise to support, I wish to make certain things very clear to the House. That the reason for the annulment of these regulations were two: One, was the issue of not being able to provide evidence of public participation. Indeed, when the Ministry and stakeholders appeared before us, the Principal Secretary (PS) indicated that they had sent circulars to all the 47 counties through the county commissioners. They undertook to provide these circulars to the Committee before we sat for deliberations a few days later. By the time we sat to deliberate we were still to receive evidence of these circulars. Two, there we no clear standard operating procedures with regard to control and command between the police service and security guards. I can remember various stakeholders appeared before us. There was a delegation led by a gentleman who is the head of the Kenya National Private Security Workers Union. The complaint was that they are among the poorest paid sectors in Kenya. What happens is that a security guard works in unregulated industry. The security companies are paid over Kshs30,000 for a security guard and they pay them Kshs8,000 or Kshs10,000. They do not provide uniform, shoes, coats or anything for defence. It was for these two reasons that we recommended the annulment of these regulations. In the event that the Ministry will come back and satisfy these two regulations, we shall in the interest of the over 500,000 security guards in this country approve them. With those few remarks I support."
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