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    "id": 195709,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to request for a Ministerial Statement from the Office of the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs, regarding the current crisis facing the Prisons Service. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Parliament has, over time, passed the Budget for the Ministry of Home Affairs, under which the Prisons Service falls. So, in the Ministerial Statement, I want the Vice- President and Minister for Home Affairs to clearly explain the following:- (i) Why no uniforms and boots have been provided to the warders to the extent that some of the warders have been forced to purchase the same with their own money. (ii) Why there was a mandatory deduction from the salaries of the prison warders against their own will. (iii) There have been irregular promotions. We need to know why. (iv) We need to know why the prisons warders have not been paid their risk allowance, just like their colleagues in the Administration Police and Regular Police Force. (v) We need to know why decent housing has not been provided while Parliament has, over April 29, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 729 the years, been approving money for that purpose. (vi) We need to know why they were denied the allowances that they were promised to be paid after the post election violence. (vii) Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to know why the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs found it wise to appoint people into the committee to look into the issues of prison warders; people who were, actually, running the Prisons Service and could, as well, use that opportunity to cover their tracks."
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