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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very important Motion and I really would like to support it and congratulate my brother, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, for bringing it. Who is a police reservist today? A police reservist is a patriotic civilian who is unpaid, hungry, unsupervised and who is a constant reminder by the Government that there is an acute shortage of police officers in Kenya. If these parameters that I have just described are true about this patriotic civilian who is trying to help us live securely, then surely the least we can do is pay him. We must pay them. Having paid them, we should organize them by ensuring that we create a law department within the police force, a civilian department that is supervised and composed of disciplined people who have received training on gun handling and gun discipline. If this is the case, then the hard question that we should ask as a Senate is; do we need to provide Kenyans with police reservists or not? If we want to give them, then the route can only be one; that we do the bare minimum to ensure that these police reservists feel appreciated. Madam Temporary Speaker, once you convert this into a department within the police service, then the threats that we normally come across from the police reservists - and that is the reason why the NARC Government, where I served as an Assistant Minister was resisting them - is because these hungry Kenyans who are unpaid and unsupervised, left on their own become imposters. You know the big story of Waiganjo who was jailed the other day for two years. He had risen to a very high rank of being a provincial police officer. This is because he was hungry, armed, unpaid and unsupervised. This temptation by the reservists to go into connivance with criminals is because they are hungry and want to make some little money. We should be able to acknowledge this and address it as the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. Madam Temporary Deputy, I want to speak in support of this important Motion on the issue of deployment of the police. The way we deploy our police officers leaves a lot to be desired. I will give you two examples: If you go to a roadblock today in Kenya, you will find a minimum of four officers, two ladies and two gentlemen. The first thing that strikes you is that unless there was a matatu, a track or pick up behind you as you drop towards the roadblock, you will find all four of them on their mobiles. The moment they see a matatu, a pick up or a track, they become alert and start flagging them down. They are not there to arrest them but to collect petty little bribes. How does the United"
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