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    "id": 1097274,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1097274/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 108,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 104,
        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
        "slug": "peter-mwathi"
    },
    "content": "(ii) To explain why the Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) are allowed to erect roadblocks along Maua-Wajir-Mandera Road. (iii) To explain what measures have been put in place to ensure that drivers are offered police escort on the way to Mandera and back. (iv) To explain whether the Government can consider licensing miraa traders and drivers to hold guns for their safety since they pass through sections that are prone to attacks from terror groups such as Al-Shabaab. (v) To explain why there is a slow response from the police whenever they are called upon to attend to an emergency along the mentioned routes and, (vi) To explain why miraa transporters are asked to surrender their vehicles together with their commodities to the local drivers without any formal agreement. The response is as follows: (i) The National Police Service officers provide security along roads through mobile patrol from Kotulo to Mandera and Takaba on the way back. Officers are not paid to provide security since this is the core mandate of the police. (ii) All road barriers within Mandera are manned by National Police Service officers under supervision by their respective commanders and appropriate strategies have been put in place to ensure the movement and security of all traders including"
}