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"speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
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"content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to also support this very important Motion and to congratulate the team from the Office of the President, the Ministry of Provincial Administration and Internal Security for a good job that they have been doing under very difficult circumstances. I will just touch on one main issue. That is the recruitment of police officers. This applies to all forces: the Administration Police, the military and also the administrators. I want to talk about this because there are many questions. It may have nothing to do with the headquarters but there are questions about what is happening at the recruitment stations, in terms of who gets recruited. There are many allegations about people paying money to be recruited and so on. We have to deal with this matter and we have to be honest about it because it is a big problem. I would like to recommend the example of the Ministry of Education on the recruitment of teachers. I have spoken about this to Maj- Gen. Ali and Prof. Saitoti because it is a big headache and makes people laugh at the whole exercise. My proposal is that we involve the local communities in the recruitment of the police officers and other forces. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to make a proposal. In education, they send criteria that you have to short-list so many candidates and they should have the following qualifications. In that committee, there will be respected members of the community, the provincial administration, maybe a police officer representing a division or a police station to ensure that the people that are recruited meet the criteria that has been set out by the recruiting officers. Among other factors, they should look at the character of a person. Who could better tell about the character of a person than the people who know him or her? With regard to qualifications like grade, age and year of graduation--- because we should give people priority on the basis of when they left school, gender, location within particular constituencies so that you do not recruit police officers from just one location and not another and with regard to socio- economic ability. If we continue at this rate, the poor will never be recruited in the police force. I am sure if it was the case during the time Maj-Gen. Ali and many others were being recruited, probably, they would not be the generals that we are seeing today. That merit is ours. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to propose that we give orphans the first priority when we do the short-listing, then partial orphans. That is how we do it in education. We should also look at the socio-economic conditions of the people that we recruit. If it is true that some people pay Kshs200,000 to be recruited to the police force, if you have Kshs200,000 - for Godâs sake - why can you not start some business"
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