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    "id": 990538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to thank the Chairperson of the Committee for bringing the Report. You can see the structural deficiencies in our Constitution. That is why the person who will be responding to Questions in the next Parliament must be a member of the Executive. You can imagine the situation where the Chairperson, who is not a member of the Executive but an MP, is now tasked with the responsibility of getting information that is very difficult to obtain. Secondly, we must not be seen to be condemning the entire National Police Service. The Service consists of over 100,000 police officers. Criminal responsibility is individual. There are members within the Service who are bad and there are others who are doing exceptionally good work. Therefore, what we need to ask both the IG and IPOA is to weed out the bad elements within the National Police Service instead of condemning the entire Service of over 100,000 officers. Thirdly, those of us who come from the Northern Frontier District know that over the last few years, there has been tremendous improvement. There is a bit of improvement even in the way they do it. In the past, they were more brutal. Since we are tasked with the responsibility of giving them a budget, it is high time we empowered those other institutions so that we have properly trained and managed police officers so that rogue officers within the Service can be weeded out and dealt with in accordance with the law. That way, they can suffer appropriate punishment for their criminal activities as individuals. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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