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    "id": 1143836,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also inject my voice in this very important Motion. Elizabeth Wangui Muchiri is an extremely qualified and beautiful lady. I am pleased to hear her response especially on the issue of addressing the mental health of the police officers. If she manages to get this job, she must go there and make sure that the issue of mental health is addressed from a multisectoral approach. The remuneration of our police officers is pathetic. Where they live in is even worse. You can imagine three families of police officers who are married and who are in their active ages living in a tiny mabati house where the walls dividing them is only curtains. You can imagine a police officer who has left his wife inside that tiny mabati house in the company of three other active young police officers who have six packs. The love triangle happening there can send any sane man into Mathari Mental Hospital. No wonder, the statistics show that ten per cent of our police officers suffer from mental illnesses. It is therefore important that if she secures this job that should be the first point of address. I also want to remind her that we have concentrated so much on taking the statistics of junior police officers. The statistics are actually scary. We are told that ten per cent of armed police officers are suffering from mental illness. You know what they are capable of doing in our streets when they are armed. It is too scary. It is scarier than approaching a bush that has a lion. In every group of ten police officers, one is capable of shooting us because of mental illness! We have given them guns with ammunition. It is scary. So, let her approach this issue from that perspective. She needs to help ensure that they are well remunerated and that their housing is up to standard. 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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