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    "id": 593211,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me to add my voice on this one. It would appear that what the Chairman is calling militias, notwithstanding the definition by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, the fact, is that the militias are everywhere. It does not matter what they are called or whether they are uniformed or not. In fact, the citizens in the county are better off when the governor has the askaris in uniform. What is happening is that - I do not wish to bring the agenda of my county here - when the governor has something to do, he comes up with a militia of up to 300 in number and at a fee. It would appear that the governors seem to have a lot of free money; I think it is the duty of this House to somehow curb the usage of this money through legislation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think it is fair to go according to Sen. Khaniri’s suggestion. I think the formation of the enforcement askaris should be formalized and the place to formalize is this House, so that we do not have individual training here and there. We should have a Kiganjo somewhere where every governor or a county government which wants to establish this enforcement, is under some legal framework and some common training where what they are supposed to do and how, is common. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there should be legislation to state clearly that they are not a militia for the governor but for doing certain functions so that when the governor does not do so, maybe he would be breaking the law. At the moment, the whole thing is illegal and he is not breaking any law because there is no system under which they are operating."
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