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    "id": 1021529,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
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        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
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    "content": "On the Commission and what it intends to do in training, I suggest that as far as the reforms are concerned, we have a psychotherapy as part of the training. The men and women in groups that have been trained so far are young. They are from the ages of 24 to 30 years. This is a tender age and they are parents. So, as far as the psychotherapy is concerned, I suggest that it is embedded in the training curriculum, so that young men and women are aware of the predicaments and challenges ahead of them. Failure to understand that, the young men and women will not be able to comprehend what is expected of them in terms of the security challenges they will confront. I had serious issues in my constituency in the last two years when a number of young men aged 24 to 30 years were killed through improvised explosive devices (IEDs). It was been a big challenge. In the last few months we have lost about 33 promising young men. Their families were looking up to them. I suggest as part of the reforms that, if the challenges are understood, we should not to take the young men and women after training to the hot spots. Instead, the mature and experienced men and women should be taken to the hot spots, especially those areas that have challenges of Al-Shabaab and other insecurities. Whatever arises should not only be confined to young men but it should also involve the current police men and women. At times, it becomes difficult to console parents. So, the reforms should be looked at backwardly from parents who toiled for many years taking these young men to school to educate them. We need to look at this critically and take their levels of deployment seriously. I had a serious conversation with my regional commissioner last week when young men were deployed to North Eastern, particularly in my constituency towards the border. One of them refused and said he cannot confront that because his mindset had not been adequately prepared. So, as these reforms are being considered, they should be holistic so that these young men are adequately prepared for the challenges ahead of them. Thank you."
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