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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will still allow the police, if they have a tip that there is a crime being committed or about to be committed, to mount a temporary roadblock in order to intercept a motor vehicle which is suspected of crime. The only thing that we are outlawing is the cases of having traffic policemen everywhere. People who own Public Service Vehicles (PSVs) do not make a lot of money, because of the amount of money they give on the roads. It is like going to work for another authority which really does not care about you. So, when you get a loan and buy a Nissan and get into this business, you will soon get to know that you have to pay two bills; one on the road and the other to the owners of the loan. We want to end all that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have heard complaints and people telling me that by outlawing the Traffic Department, I am doing something so wrong because these people have been trained in their duties and so on. The reason the Traffic Department of Police must go with this Bill immediately is that if you are crossing the road in front of County Hall, for example, and there is an accident, and an ordinary police officer is passing by, he will just proceed and you will have to wait for a traffic police officer. Also, if somebody is being mugged – and people get mugged in the roundabouts all over Nairobi by chokoras and other thieves - the traffic police officers will just look. With this Bill, all policemen, whether they are Administration Police, Regular Police or General Service Unit (GSU), will be able to enforce the law. Whether it is a traffic offence or robbery, all policemen must be equal because their calling is enforcement of the law. I think making some to be traffic officers and others not, is in itself discriminatory. I believe that it may even be a violation of our current Constitution. I even have an experience where a police officer came and told me that if I knew somebody, he was even willing to pay him Kshs300,000, so that he could remain a traffic officer. So, it is lucrative. It is not law enforcement, but a money-making enforcement. So, we are proposing that all officers – uniformed and otherwise – must enforce the law on the roads. Whether it is robbery or whatever, it has to go that way."
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