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    "id": 133220,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 166,
        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
        "slug": "martha-karua"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to begin by agreeing that the police are essential to give us security. In the same breath, I would like to condemn the Ministry for failing to institute credible police reforms. This Ministry does not need a task force to change the training of the police from the colonial police to a people-friendly police. This Ministry does not need a task force or a commission to tell it that they should respect human rights. This is a force that has since 2006 been killing young men especially of Mt. Kenya origin giving them a tag name. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a police officer is supposed to arrest and take before a court of law, except where their lives are threatened. Wanton killing does not reduce crime. If it did, in the last two years where it is reported over 2,000 young men have been killed, crime ought to have vanished. I am saying that this is a Ministry that is totally unwilling to reform. However, I want to salute the many officers who work hard and honestly while condemning the rogues this Ministry has failed to tame. It is necessary that this Ministry adopts a policy of holding each officer from the lowest rank to the highest, accountable. When you are on duty at point A, you must account for that area and whatever happens. It is not enough to pay a spokesperson to be denying everything even where they have not checked. Two weeks ago, we had an embarrassing incident when four men were gunned down in Nakuru and the spokesman, as usual denied only for the police later to apprehend suspects. We have had such many cases. We should not have the Minister or his team denying obvious crimes by the police. The very least he could promise is investigations. This Ministry should not be a source of creating insecurity but a source of security. Unless he weeds out the rogue officers, they will contaminate the good ones. I admit there are good and hard working police officers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the same goes for the Provincial Administration. A majority in the Provincial Administration are working well. However, the Ministry must stop using provincial administrators to do their political work. Let us not have political administrators. This reminds me of the incident in Kirinyaga where there was a District Commissioner (DC), police officers and intelligence services, if a total of 43 or, in my view, 73 people are killed, then it means there is absence of the Government and security"
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