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    "id": 1243510,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. This is a Motion that quickly rises to the challenge we are having within the police. It is almost every day, week or several times in a month that we hear police officers tuning against themselves, family members or their own colleagues. In my own county, just a few weeks ago, we had such an incidence in Lugari Constituency. One of the youths, a Mr. Elijah, who had just joined the police, was gunned down by his colleague. Many people take this as a criminal activity, but personally, I think there is a deeper problem captured by this Motion and the Mover. It is difficult for somebody to turn against a friend or a member of the family unprovoked. Police officers are serving under difficult circumstances. They do not have houses. Their pay slips amount to nothing worth talking about. Police officers do not have access to health facilities or insurance to meet hospital bills for members of their families. Police officers are ordinarily expected to dress impeccably, but they do not have sufficient funds to take their uniforms to the laundry. The welfare of the police is a contributor to what many might think they are mentally unwell. It is the pressure that is accompanied by the police code that allows police officers to go home with firearms. In some occasions, you will meet a police officers in uniform at around 6.00 p.m. drunk and carrying a gun. You wonder what the officer would do with the firearm if provoked in the slightest manner and got angry. As I support and second this Motion, I insist that we must address the welfare of police officers. Without addressing the welfare of these gallant sons and daughters of this country, we are most unlikely going to sort out the mess we are seeing today in the police force."
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