Senate Speaker Ekwee Ethuro on Wednesday ordered a probe into the heavy deployment of police officers at Parliament Buildings prior to Wednesday’s special sitting.

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The speaker directed the House National Security Committee to start investigating the matter and then table a report to the House.

“This is not a police state. This is a democracy,” he said after several requests to adjourn over insecurity and intimidation fears.

“The instructions were very clear that we don’t need any police presence. Even today when I came in and I saw (police), I called the Cabinet secretary for Interior (Joseph Nkaissery),” he added.