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    "id": 1355057,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1355057/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rozaah Buyu",
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    "content": "We have a ratio of one policeman to 1,152 citizens in Kenya. The result of this can be clearly seen in this country. The impact of few police officers is felt in the violent occurrences in many parts of this country where many Kenyans end up losing their lives. We have been told that security does not lie in the numbers of security officers. That might be true. However, you can only train and make good quality of the numbers you have. We know that charity begins at home. Where is the sense of taking 1000 police officers to Haiti when Kenyans are dying in need of protection and service from their police officers? The head of Government took an oath to protect the lives of his citizens. You do not protect the lives of your citizens by taking police officers, who are supposed to protect the citizens, away from them and to a land called ‘Haiti’. You can only protect their lives by enhancing the numbers and the security of your citizens. We have also been told in this Report, and heard from the Leader of the Majority Party that Kenya owes it to the international community which we are part of. Surely, where do you get the guts to take your police officers away to protect the lives of people in Haiti if you cannot contain and protect the lives of your people? We have been told that Haiti is a land of gangs where no president can sit pretty. So far, four presidents have been beheaded and murdered. The gangs maraud the whole land of Haiti. I agree with our Leader of the Minority Party that, in taking the 1,000 officers to Haiti, we are actually doing nothing but sending them there as sacrificial lambs. Give me one reason we would take these officers to that land and country ruled by gangs, without law and order and no respect for human rights. I stand here to register my dissent and opposition to this project of taking our members of security to that land."
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