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    "id": 389676,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to thank Sen. Lonyangapuo for bringing this Motion. I visited his county about two months ago. In a meeting with elders, the first thing that they asked me was how the Senate could help KPRs; exactly the same things that he said here. They listed all the positives from KPRs. Madam Temporary Speaker, in an ideal situation, the county would not list KPRs, like he did say, if we have sufficient police ratio in the country. If we had enough numbers of well trained, equipped and managed police officers, we would not need KPRs. But the reality is that we live in a country where we have a lot of challenges in security, such that, perhaps, with devolution we may overcome. Previously, you can imagine the Provincial Police Officer (PPO) of Rift Valley is based in Nakuru and has a Land Rover to run a province stretching from Tanzania to Ethiopia and Sudan. You have a PPO stationed in Embu and who has to go up to Moyale to cover his territory. If something happens in Loitoktok, the PPO is in Nakuru. He has to come to Nairobi to go to Loitoktok. It became very difficult. We have said many times that we need to provide in those difficult terrains even helicopters for the police to be able to track and fight crime. But before we reached that ideal situation, the Government allowed communities to police themselves. At first, it was like a fight against rustling of livestock. But it has now caught up with other areas. I am happy that Sen. Yusuf Haji, the Chair of the Committee on Defence is here. Even in the so-called high-potential areas, you will now go and find a unit called community policing. Unlike where you have KPRs who are armed, the community police units in the high potential areas do not have anything. They just purvey information and"
}