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    "id": 1122069,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "In the last Parliament, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo brought a Bill in this House and he wanted the police reservists to be recognized, adopted and paid some form of salary in order for them to do a good job. In fact, there are some places in this country where ordinary police do not exist. If you go to Kapedo, Suguta Valley, some parts of West Pokot and some parts of Turkana, you will find that the police supplement the primary duty of the people over there. If you land in Lodwar and drive to Nakodok or Nadapal, you will be surprised. When you get there, you will see a mama carrying water on her head, a baby on her back and a Kalashnikov on her shoulder to protect her livestock, family and society. I salute those women. The police officers, who we recruit, should be deployed in the areas that have serious security challenges such as Marsabit, Turkana, Isiolo, Samburu, Laikipia, Tana River, Lamu and other places. People in those places should enjoy the freedom that our forefathers fought for. This report is good because it makes far reaching recommendations. However, this Report will be among the statistics of reports brought to this House unless the Senate Business Committee brings back the Implementation Committee to this House. Once this Report is done, it will be kept away. It will gather dust and nobody will be held to account. Nobody will call the Inspector General (IG) to ask him if they have set up a training system on human rights. If we had an Implementation Committee, it would catalogue appearances from various Government agencies. It would also ensure that the resolutions of this House are implemented, actualized and that those resolutions find their ways into legislation and policy formulation for the Government. The Speaker announced here, sometimes back, that we were going to have the Implementation Committee. We need it as early as yesterday. You and I remember the far-reaching recommendations that we gave on the maize inquiry. It included reforming the National Cereals and Produce Board, giving subsidies to the farmers and the interventions that were to be undertaken by the State so as to help the farmers. Nobody talks about that Report any more because there is no Committee on Implementation. That Committee would have asked the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Co-operatives the reason as to why he has not implemented the resolutions that were passed by the Senate. Without that, our debates end up being academic discourses that do not improve the lot of our country. Be that as it may, I want to thank the distinguished colleagues who are Members of this Committee for working hard and bringing a Report of this nature. This Report, if properly implemented, will help in doing away with extra-judicial killings, maiming, kidnapping and incarceration of people for long periods. Allow me to say this for one minute. There was a boy who was called Masten Wanjala. He confessed that he killed 14 children and sucked their blood. He was arrested. I want Sen. Omogeni to look at this case even if it means doing it on his own motion. That boy was arrested and he confessed to all those killings. One would have expected him to be taken to court and put in high security remand like Kamiti or somewhere else. What did we learn? That the boy was in Jogoo Road Police Station and he freely walked away. He went home. He happens to come from my village. The first"
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