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    "id": 1522426,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1522426/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, there are three professions in this country where the absolute sacrifice is made by the people who man those professions. Kenyans, including Parliament, are always castigating our teachers. We know what teachers go through to get us to be what we are. They are always complaining about our doctors and our nurses. I come from a medical family and I understand. Somebody can receive a call at 3.00 in the morning. This can be a lady with a breastfeeding child. She has to go to the hospital and can stay there until the following day at around midday or even in the afternoon. Professionals like doctors, police officers, nurses and teachers deserve better than what we give them right now as a country. We will try and deal with the psychosocial support. I support the amendment to the Act to do that, but what will psychosocial intervention help an officer who has hunger pangs after being on duty the whole night without dinner and does not have money to eat in a restaurant? They also need to feed their families yet they earn so little. It is my humble plea to this House and country to take good care of our police officers. They work in areas such as north eastern Kenya, where there are improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by terrorists, and they end up losing their lives in environments some of them have never seen before. We do not compensate them well. When they die, their children suffer because there is no fund to take care of their education and their welfare. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg you to give me an additional five minutes, if you do not mind."
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