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    "id": 1143834,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1143834/?format=api",
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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": "that is why you hear of endless murders and suicides. You post a policeman in far flung areas, he leaves a family with a young wife for two to three months. As my aunt normally tells me, a woman is not a stone. You will come and dump her there for three to four months. You will have gone, but she has got feelings. That is why if you interrogate many of these killings deeply, they are about love affairs gone wrong. I know everybody appreciates that the revenues are low and the budgets are tight but the kind of money we keep losing through corruption and the lords of corruption that are outside there campaigning as if they are saints... Everybody knows they are lords of corruption. If we can plug the holes where money is lost, we can improve the welfare of police officers. You are sending police officers to chase after thieves and thugs and they have no vehicles. Many of the vehicles that were procured through dubious means have broken down. They are not serviceable. Now they are being killed. They are unable to maintain law and order and now we are blaming them for underperforming. We are going through an election campaign, which is very emotive and crimes are going to be committed. Unless we continue to improve the welfare of the officers, we are going to suffer continually. That is why the SRC should surely look at the issues of the police officers and all those in the security apparatus in a more humane manner regardless of whether or not we break the international ceiling on salaries and welfare. You can never have a prosperous nation unless the security is guaranteed. As I conclude, Kenya is one country. Every Kenyan, wherever he is, must be given an equal opportunity of landing a government job. This practice of actually having an appointee before you go through the hopeless process of appointment and even going to the committees for approval is discouraging serious and competent Kenyans from applying for these jobs. Since the majority have their way, I will support with those reservations that I have listed in my presentation. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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