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    "id": 1340524,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support my colleagues on this issue. In his Statement, he mentioned that people were picked up while herding their livestock. It is systematic. It is happening on a continuous basis. There does not seem to be an end to this practice. We remember with nostalgia when we used to have a working Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in this country. People could not do anything anywhere and get away with it. I remember a time when people could not even write anything in their houses. It is the time of seditious publications. We need an organised police force. The police need to do their work. They need to get people everywhere. If the problem is that the National Police Service does not have enough personnel, we need to think of arming some civilians to help them. There used to be Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) even in towns, including the City of Nairobi. I remember Mr. Patrick Shaw used to shoot dead criminals in this town. Several other police reservists hunted down and killed criminals who had established gangs in certain corners of Kenya. There are criminals who have camped in a certain corner of this country, and there is no guarantee that they will not go to other parts of the country. There is no one who is safe. If they can abduct somebody from Boni Forest, tomorrow they will abduct somebody from Lamu Town itself. The next day, they will abduct somebody from Kitui. Then they will come to Nairobi and do the same everywhere in the country. They must be stopped. To stop them, we must see seriousness in the function of the police and the security system. The issue of having National Police Reservists needs to be looked into because local communities know exactly what happens in their local areas. Sometimes they have insights, but they do not have the means to contain the criminals. There is need for us to think about engaging the local communities in an effort to contain insecurity in the affected areas. I want to reflect on my own constituency of Tigania West, which boarders Isiolo County. We have had issues of insecurity for a very long time. We have requested the Government to increase the number of NPRs. The Government has given us only 10 NPRs. We need about 40. If we have 40 NPRs against 400 people, each NPR can contain 10 people. If we cannot have armed police taking care of this country, let us arm civilians and we will sort out the problem. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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