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    "id": 1037366,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1037366/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. That was a good Report from the Chairperson, Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. If whatever is contained in that Report is correct, and I believe it is, then I think it raises a lot of issues. As much as we want to look at the public, we must also look at the welfare of these officers. It is important that we visualise the situation that the officer was in: He is armed with a gun, the crowd is approaching menacingly and a stone has allegedly hit the back of the police officer. We should look for ways of equipping police officers in addition to training them appropriately. We should have a policy of police officers going to control crowds armed with proper equipment such as PPEs and teargas canisters. If we do this, when a police officer is attacked, he will likely throw a teargas canister rather than shoot to disperse the crowd. Let us look at this issue holistically. If we look at the interest of the public, which we must protect at all times, let us also realise that these police officers are human beings. If their lives are threatened in the manner it is being suggested, they should be supported with proper equipment to defend themselves without harming the public. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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