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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, many of us expect to have a dignified country. That dignity is ruined policeman who collect Kshs20, Kshs50 or Kshs100 at a police roadblock. We want the Minister, when he is replying, to tell this country about those shameful acts of collecting money at police roadblocks. He should consult the Police Commissioner. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have, on very many occasions on the Floor of this House, talked about a roadblock in Maua Town. As you enter into the town, a minimum of six police officers parade there on a daily basis for more hours than any other police roadblock that I have gone through, and there is no other business they do there. They just ask vehicles that come in to pay up from morning to midnight, because of the huge volumes of miraa vehicles. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support the idea of using very stringent measures to deal with armed criminals. I have heard many hon. Members here getting very excited about aping things that Uganda does. It is high time that we also borrowed something from Uganda. What do they do with armed criminals? They do not take them through the normal criminal procedure courts. They take them to court martials. So, we would like the Minister to conduct investigations on armed gangsters and organised crime and adopt court martials. When you send policemen to go and arrest armed criminals, you are being reckless by endangering the lives of those police officers. We should have the army involved. They should arrest the armed gangsters. They have the ammunition. Then, they should be through court martials. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of police killings, especially post-arrests, should be handled very seriously. We should not even have the Commissioner of Police or the Minister trying to condone July 12, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2487 or explaining in whatever language about the death of Kenyans after they have been arrested, especially from a bullet wound. In many countries where there are problems with high incidences of crime, they have specific measures put forward to put crime under control. We do not have a situation where we would allow extra-judicial executions by our police. When a Kenyan who is not armed is arrested, we would expect that, that person is respected and undergoes the due process of the law. I can understand the frustrations that the police are going through; a very corrupt judicial system, where you are aware that as a policeman you have arrested a specific criminal once or twice and he or she goes and bribes their way out and goes back to the same crime. I can understand their frustrations, but the frustrations should never be translated into random extra- judicial executions. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue is that as we go through the current Budget, in the last 24 months, we have had additional districts. This is a whole new bureaucracy. I know that a lot of the money that the Minister is asking, is to take care of the new salaries for the new heads of departments and the expansions of the massive Provincial Administration that we are creating. We need to come together as a country and have public hearings where we would like Kenyans to say whether they are happy with the expanded constituencies or the mutating many districts that are being created by the Government. Therefore, we need to have these values put forward by the consumers who are the public. Are they happy with the multiplicity of new districts? When you talk of bringing services closer to the people, is it really services or we worry about those district allocations in the Budget? We have noticed over the years that it is specific projects and programmes that get funded in the annual Budget. It is no longer a Sub-head in a district. So, do we really need those districts or it is unnecessary expenditure? With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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