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    "id": 1033246,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Koinange",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Koinange",
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    "content": "Our police officers have since March this year been playing a huge role in helping us combat the COVID-19 pandemic. They have been in the frontline in the fight against COVID-19. In the initial days, they played a very big role in contact tracing. They also manned the very many roadblocks erected all over the country to restrict movement of our people in an attempt to reduce COVID-19 spread. Up to now, they are fully involved in ensuring that the current curfew is observed strictly. I urge this House to push for our police officers to get COVID-19 allowance just like the other frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19. In the near future, we all would like to see the issue of psychosocial support and welfare of police taken very seriously. We have lost a number of our police officers to COVD-19. I challenge all of us in the House to put up extra office space for the officers in our police stations and our police posts to help them have the required social distance at the work place. Let us also install hand washing tanks at our police stations to maintain hygiene of our police officers and those visiting police stations. Let us also extend this to our schools and especially those with very high populations. I also urge our national Government administrative officers, especially chiefs and assistant chiefs, to be more visible in the fight against COVID-19. Let them also be more visible in the fight against crime. Let them be in the frontline in the fight against radicalisation of our youth. Let them activate and operationalise the Nyumba Kumi initiative to help prevent crime. Also, to mention that Nyumba Kumi will assist us in fast-tracking the Huduma Namba third registration. As I conclude, I echo the words of His Excellency the President when he urged all of us to stop inciting fellow Kenyans against each other. Words, whether spoken or written, have the potential to burn a whole nation. I urge our fellow politicians, our religious leaders, media personalities and bloggers to stop inciting our people against each other. Let us stop the so-called hustler nation narrative because it is not healthy at all. We saw the way Rwanda, Mali and also Burkina Faso have gone. Let us not play politics with our security. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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