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    "id": 1193022,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1193022/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
        "slug": "enoch-kiio-wambua"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I may not have had the opportunity to know Eng. Koome for 31 years as my neighbour. However, following the vetting process, Eng. Koome came out as a professional officer who understands the calling of his office. I understand that he has been in service for about 31 or 32 years, after he joined straight from the university. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I will say just two things about the Police IG. It is an acceptable good labour practice internationally that once you give a person a job, then you are supposed to facilitate them properly to do that job. If you do so, then you can demand results for the work done. It is very easy to blame police officers for the things that they do and those they do not do. However, looking at the working conditions of our police officers, sometimes we expect too much from them. The accommodation of our police officers is really worrying. It is important that new IG looks into the welfare of his officers, beginning with proper housing. Where most of them live now, they are basically dehumanised. You dehumanise a human being and give him a gun to go and take care of other citizens. That may be asking a bit too much from the police officers. Secondly, is the issue of transportation. Recently, I accompanied the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations to Mutha over an insecurity issue. We engaged the officers on the ground and they told us they are allocated 450 litres of fuel per month per vehicle. The fuel does not even come in time and other times, it does not even arrive, yet they are supposed to traverse the whole county a whole month. That is expecting too much from these officers."
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