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    "id": 1277493,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "We have a very robust insurance scheme and policy for our retired officers through the Defence Forces Medical Insurance Scheme (DEFMIS). You can ask the officer if he was contributing to this scheme before he left the disciplined forces. If the answer is “yes”, then he must be enjoying his pension. Some of our officers never contributed to the scheme because they did not see the value. We also have a state-of-the-art wellness centre for our officers in service who get injured within and outside the country. We make sure that they get all the psycho-social support they need. I ask the Departmental Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations to visit our wellness centre. On the recruitment issue, the Member talked about the many clans in his constituency. We do not recruit clans. We recruit Kenyans. The first thing we ask for during recruitment is an Identification Card (ID). I am sorry to say that if we go that route, then everyone in this House will bring their clans for recruitment. Everyone is a Kenyan. We do not ask them which clan they come from. Now that you have raised the issue of the location of the recruitment, please, write a letter to either me or KDF tomorrow so that we discuss it. We will call you and agree on the most appropriate location before the 28th of this month. It is important to note that even the cosmopolitans in your constituency are Kenyans. If they are in that cosmopolitan area, then they came from parts of Kenya like Bungoma, Garissa, Nyeri and Kisumu. They must be recruited. Please, write to us and we will call you latest Monday. We want to make the recruitment available to a wider section of the Kenyan society. The Member for Galole had the same problem. We want to address all those issues collectively."
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