National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula has tasked the National Assembly Administration and Security Committee in conjunction with their Senate counterpart to jointly consider the National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) memorandum seeking clearance to deploy Kenyan police to Haiti.
NSAC requested approval from MPs to send the multinational security support mission to the troubled nation after the memorandum was approved by the Interior Cabinet Secretary and the Attorney General.
"So the Constitution in the way it is structured does not actually read or view the National Police Service as a force and therefore I want to up to submit the speaker in the sense that we have got no capacity as a house to authorize or support authorized National Police Service which is not up security force," Wandayi stated.
Speaker Wetangula however poured cold water on Wandayi's argument saying that the terms 'forces' as alluded in Article 240 included the National Police Service. High Court Judge Chacha Mwita, sitting at Nairobi's Milimani Law Courts, gave the extension even as he scheduled hearings on the matter to begin on November 9.
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