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    "id": 1143866,
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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "approved Commissioners, under the pretext that they are going to represent Parliamentarians. I am sorry to say, from my own assessment, I do not think that the Commissioners we have appointed to go and represent us in that Commission have actually done a good job. After landing in that Commission, they started taking care of their own salaries other than the interest of Members of Parliament. From what the Members have said, I want to give specific examples. When you look at our police service and the policemen and women who are currently serving, you will be surprised to find that there is discrimination on the kind of insurance public servants get and what our police officers have. Compared to other public servants, police officers have a lower quality insurance, in terms of service provided. One will ask themselves, between yourself, myself, Principal Secretary and a police officer, who is more exposed in terms of risk? You will realise that a policeman is more exposed as opposed to a PS or an administrative officer, unlike an accountant who is always in the office. However, to make things worse, their insurance is a third of what the other people are getting. If this Commissioner is appointed and joins the SRC, her in-tray is full. Members have just discussed the issue of psychosocial support. Our police officers have serious mental challenges, basically, because of the environment that they are working in. It is important that, even as this Commissioner joins the SRC, she should know that she has a lot of work. She has to go an extra mile to make sure that she champions the interest of the police officers. Her other work is providing the working tools for police officers. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I know that you are aspiring to be a Governor and you must have covered your area very well. You must know this very well, in your own county, there are areas where when an ordinary citizen wants a service from a police station, they are told to fuel the vehicles for them to receive the services. Nothing can be worse than that. We have given police officers a job to do without providing them with the tools of trade. As we think about this Commissioner, we need to make sure that our policemen are properly remunerated, insured and provided with the required tools to do their work. The National Police Service Commission oversees these important officers. The NPSC is supposed to take care of police officers in terms of their right salary and all that. However, there are some structural challenges in the way they operate. I wish that the NPSC is given all the mandate to do their work. There is a bit of confusion between them, the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and the Inspector General (IG). That confusion should be sorted out so that at the end of the day, these police officers who are doing a very important job for this country, are properly taken care of. I therefore support this appointment. I also wish that we could have this Commissioner appointed as soon as possible, so that she takes her position and starts championing the interest of the police officers in this country. With these remarks, I support."
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