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    "content": "Secondly, I want to plead with the Ministry to have a reform. We are willing, in the Supplementary Budget, to give them money for disarmament. I want to allege that during the lawlessness that we saw last year, a lot of illegal arms came into this country and the people--- That is why the argument about local or who financed what is there. What did they finance if ammunitions did not get here? What do people fear if they do not fear discoveries about the ammunitions? There is no way we can have a parallel police force in the country. The police have no capability as long as criminals own guns which they got from politicians. We have to do something about it. Our people are feeling too insecure. Too many things are going wrong and people cannot even walk the streets because some people went out of their way to make sure that people are armed on the streets. Now the police have to do something. That means that this Ministry must create some harmony between the Regular Police and the Administration Police (AP) because in between them, you do not even know if either one of them is helping in the crime. The APs used to be the chief’s police. Now all chiefs are using another militia to fight crime. The police are left without information. We can do this! The original intention was noble. Let us take the AP to the villages and let them be from local areas. There is no way you expect delivery from a policeman from Moyale in Siaya District because they have no stake. They really have no stake and then we keep the main police force as the overall police and create a proper chain of command. This is doable. I am sure that we will not be the first ones in the world to do it because it is all over the world. We can do this! Then it will help and enable us empower the chiefs and the DOs. The other avenue which I think we need to look at is the chiefs. We are creating so many chiefs but the National Youth Service (NYS) graduates from the localities could be recruited to augment the services in the villages. There is so much we can do within the resources. Now we are training them without a proper plan for them to exit into the mainstream life. So, we could do all these things and I would ask the Ministry to be open to suggestions. They should not look at us just as people who are complaining constantly. If he looks at Questions that come through this House, this Ministry is top. There is always a Minister here answering Questions about this Ministry and they are common to the country. We need to do this to the satisfaction of our people and we can look for simple solutions that work. If you are going to recruit--- With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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