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    "id": 1522413,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, during those days, I remember police officers used to be given ration by the Government, a rollover from the colonial practice. They used to be given canned beef, and sardines (tin fish) which were collected for every family from a Government distributor. For the officers from pastoralist areas, they used to be given dates and ghee. With a very heavy heart, I want to say that our policemen were better off under the colonial administration than they are under independent Kenya. Their salaries, remunerations, living conditions, the risks they take and the lack of insurance when they die in the line of action and the horrible living conditions, particularly housing, is bad. It pricks the conscience of everybody, including myself, when I see the kind of conditions the men and women who are supposed to be awake the whole night to protect us and make sure we are safe, are living in. They are living in the most unsafe conditions. It is no wonder we are asking for psychosocial intervention."
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