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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. We worked with Mr. Kimaiyo at the Egerton University. We have variously worked with him in the Government. I know him as a humble officer from a humble background and no matter how high he rises in the ranks, he remains a humble person. This is really why this House today salutes him as the incoming Inspector-General. We expect the Government to understand the new dispensation. The Police Service has now to transform into professional, pure and simple. The only way through which the Minister will be instructing the Commissioner of Police will be strictly in writing. There will be no phone calls and other small meetings and pressure. Let them run the Police Service purely as a professional organ. Toda,y we also should empathize with what has happened to the police. This year, we have lost more policemen than we have ever lost in any other peaceful time and we have not understood why. I hope the incoming Minister for Finance - and I wish hon. Githae would continue, but unfortunately he wants to become a governor - must equip our police. He must protect them and give them proper insurance, so that their families do not end up in squalor just because of accidents in the line of duty. No other Kenyan puts his life on line for the safety of this State other than our police officers. It is really shocking that this Baragoi thing happened. We have seen it happening."
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