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    "id": 1143833,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Secondly, looking at the report it is clear that during the interview there came up three fundamental issues affecting the NPS and the servicemen and servicewomen who serve this country diligently, day and night. Number one is mental health. I would have imagined the NPS should have gone for somebody who has got the expertise in mental health issues and not communication. The problem facing the NPS is not communication. For the NPS, it is mental health, poor housing and uncompetitive salaries. Looking for somebody with a communication background reinforces the view that this was an advertisement in futility. The owner or the final recipient was already known. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I conclude, the servicemen and servicewomen who serve us in this country day and night protecting our lives, property, the integrity and the social fabric of this society are undergoing a lot of trouble. The number of suicides, murders and the crimes committed by the police officers are alarming. It is a matter that the country must have a discourse on. It is a matter that the relevant committee must surely sit down and have a very sober discussion about. In the rural areas, through NG-CDF, we have established police stations and police lines, but in the recent past there has been a regulation that government funds cannot be used to build police houses. The thing is that in many rural and far flung areas, there are no rental houses. So, if you make that regulation, where do you want these police officers to stay? That is how they end up staying in those tin huts with very low personal privacy. Stress levels rise and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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