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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity, first, to support this Motion as amended. I congratulate my good friend, Hon. Waluke Koyi of Sirisia Constituency for bringing this Motion. Having served in the army for very many years, he understands the problem that we are facing as a country. This Motion seeks to prevent police officers like APs, the General Service Unit (GSU) and regular police from leaving the service immediately after graduation from police colleges. I totally agree with him that statistics show that very many young men and women go to these training colleges in the name of becoming police officers. However, immediately after graduating, very many of them leave the service. The reasons are many. The reasons most of my colleagues who have spoken before gave are poor remuneration, poor working conditions, lack of insurance in their work place and lack of vehicles and modern equipment. That is very true. However, I must say that Kenyans are very clever. Very many police officers leave the service because they have received good training from the Kenya Police Training College. Normally, they are poached by many private institutions such as insurance companies and banks so that they can go and provide the services and skills they got from the police training colleges. Let me say that this is something that we must be very careful about. It is not just the private institutions that are taking our young men and women, the Al-Shabaab are also taking these young men and women to train them further so that they can come back and attack their motherland. In Kenya, the people we hear have gone to Somalia and other countries only for them to come back to attack us are people we have trained. So, I totally agree with the Members who have spoken before me that we need to put a curfew or a regulation that states that somebody must serve, at least, five years like is the case in the army. If such persons have to leave then they must pay the amount of money that was used to train them. Even though it is very hard, it is one of the things that we must do as a country. I heard my good friend, the engineer, talk about the number of police officers in the City being increased when the President of the United States of America, Obama visited us. I belong to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. Yesterday, we interviewed the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government. First of all, we congratulate him, the Inspector-General of Police and the entire police force for a job well done. We must also congratulate the officers who did a good job to ensure that nothing happened. As a country, we have been congratulated by very many people. I wish Hon. Gumbo was here. I want to tell him that we are following up on what he said. We want all the officers who came to provide security, particularly those who came from upcountry to be paid their allowances. That is their right and they must be paid that allowance. Our Government has tried its best. I hope all Members of Parliament will agree with me that today, when you go to your various constituencies, you will see new police vehicles. It could be that not all the constituencies have new police vehicles, but this time round we see very many vehicles. However, there is a front that the Government is not working on and that is housing. Nothing has been done about it. As a House, we must follow and ask the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government questions. The amount we allocated them during this financial year - about Ksh70 billion - is not little money. That money must trickle down to the people on the ground, particularly those living in pathetic conditions. 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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