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    "id": 936976,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/936976/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
        "slug": "samson-ndindi-nyoro"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the chance to support the annulment of the Private Security (General) Regulations. I have gone through the Report by the Committee and I cannot agree more with them. The issue of saying that private security guards can collaborate with police officers who are employed by the public without proper guidelines is a step in the wrong direction. There is no way a person employed in the private sector can obey the orders given by police bosses. The private sector does not have the privilege of taking their private guards to the kind of thorough training our police officers undergo, especially in handling firearms. Also, there is something unfortunate about the Regulations, which is that we can give powers to arrest to private guards. I have been a victim of such a thing. We will breed anarchy where a private person purporting to be a private guard can arrest anyone, keep them in their house and take them to court or whichever place after some few days. Therefore, it is not wise for us to expose our country to those kinds of risks. Even more telling is the fact that the drafters of the Regulations never saw the need to do thorough public participation. The issue of security is not just based in the City of Nairobi. Security or lack of it is also found in Murang’a, Busia,"
}