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    "content": "the police officers offer much more serious services than the officers of NSIS. We need to harmonise the salaries of our security institutions in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the way our police officers are handled in this country, you will be surprised. First of all, about seven police officers are given one house. It is not possible to expect seven officers to live in one house with their families. There is an issue of the irregular forces taking control of security in this country. There are various reasons as to why that is happening. We have a clear mandate for our police force. One of the mandates of the police force is to prevent crime. There are times in our history when we had an intelligence service within the police. They would collect information and the police would use it to prevent crime. One wonders what happened to that service. About 30 people were killed in Central Province and the police had no idea that they were going to be killed. That shows that, definitely, something is wrong with our police in the country. We have spoken about police reforms for a very long time. There are even documents that propose those reforms. But if you look at what has been implemented, it is only the purchase of vehicles. When it comes to the issues of changing the management of the police force and who they would report to, nobody takes this issue seriously. Definitely, one sees that he will not benefit from changing the management of the police force. The way our Police Force is structured at the moment, it is going to be very difficult to get any effective security service in this country. That is simply because the police officers are responsible to an individual, and not to the security of the citizens. Until our police officers are for “U tumishi kwa Wote ”, it is going to be very difficult for us to maintain security in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we all know that wherever there are irregular forces, the first thing that we do is to disarm them. Guns in this country are handled by anybody and are available to everybody. I am wondering: Why do we pay the NSIS the billions that we pay it and yet, that information cannot be provided so that we can take measures to pre-empt the situation and make sure that those guns do not cause harm in this country? We need to have serious reforms in our security system. Those reforms cannot be achieved by the proposal by His Excellency that by creating more districts, we are going to deal with the security problem in this country. The President needed to take the issue of security much more seriously. It is embarrassing that, during this Speech, despite the fact that people had died in Central Province, he did not take the issue of security seriously. The other issue is to do with the economy of this country. All of us have witnessed, over a long period of time, assets of this country being sold year in, year out, to meet budget deficits. I find that a very interesting way of running an economy. In the village where I come from, if you have a child who is supposed to go to school and you have no money to pay school fees, the normal thing that you do is to sell your cow, sheep or even excise a bit of your land and sell it, so that you can pay the school fees. In this country, when we need money, the Government turns to selling assets to raise money to pretend that our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is higher. Even for a villager, when he sells his cow, his GDP becomes higher. When you sell your land, your GDP becomes higher."
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