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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for protecting me from my colleagues and the protagonists. If you look at the pay slip of a newly employed law enforcement officer, be it an Administration Police (AP), a prison officer or a regular policeman - their starting salary is Kshss18,000 and the house allowance of Kshs.1,200. Surely, where on earth can you get a house for Kshs1,200? The salary they get is so little compared to what we hon. Members are paid and other people. There is no justification. When our police officers are being paid Kshs18,000, and you expect them to enforce the law, they will not do it! They pay medical bills because they are human beings who can be sick. They have no medical cover and they have children who go to school. Those are people who are underpaid and, therefore, they cannot carry on with their duties in that state of low morale. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at their living conditions, they live in the cone-shaped huts. I wish hon. Members of the National Assembly would go to see where the prison officers, the regular police officers and all the other disciplined officers live. Hon. Abongotum was the Minister for Internal Security and I am sure he understands what I am talking about. That is because I have visited such places. Those officers live in deplorable conditions and they get too little salary. For heaven’s sake, let the National Assembly appropriate their budget and make sure that police officers are paid well, housed properly and insecurity will be a thing of the past. A wise man once said that there are three things one cannot hide - the sun, the moon and the truth. You can hide everything else, but you cannot hide those three things. The truth is one thing that you cannot hide. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Report from the President is very good. That is a fact and I have gone through the Report. I am also happy that when the President was in the USA, he was interviewed by Cable News Network (CNN). He said that the Mpeketoni attack was a terrorist attack. It is shame on those people who want to make political capital out of it, by insisting that it was the work of politicians. We need people who are honest and who can speak the truth - the way the President did in the USA. This country is in a very unique situation. Why do Kenyans fight? There is so much insecurity in the country because of socio-economic and political reasons. Insecurity can be finished when Kenyans see that there is fairness, involvement and inclusivity in tackling insecurity. They would buy the idea and support it. We will be more effective. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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