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    "id": 389716,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Elachi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I also rise to support the Motion, looking at the history not only of the police reservists but the whole of the police fraternity. We have gone through a lot in this country and as the Senate, we need to ask ourselves whether we want to continue playing the games of politics with the security of this country or we want to be sober enough and look at the issue knowing that we need to address it since it affects us so seriously. We do not need to politicize but ask ourselves questions about our morals. This is where we have completely lost it in this country. When you look at the morals of every person in this country, even me, then we need to question ourselves. When you look at young people throwing a burning tyre to a policeman and nobody talks about it, when you find a politician who goes and beats up a policewoman and we cannot talk about it but we are talking about slaps---. It is seriously an issue over which we need to question ourselves. We need to ask ourselves where we lost it. Where did we lose it? When I was a young girl, elders would know if there is a young man coming up to terrorize the community. He would be disciplined. This ensured that the security of the community was taken care of. Today, even in Nairobi, we do not know our neighbours. That is why we end up living with some people who come and rape our own daughters or sodomise our young boys. This is something that we need to start questioning. That is why our country is going down the drain. When you talked about a reservist, during the days I served in the Civil Service, this would mean a mzee who has volunteered to take care of the security of his community. He would put on his akala shoes and walk many kilometers to ensure the security of children in that community. Today, all we do is have a blame game. We are playing with lives that we end up losing. No one is coming out to account for those lives. You are a leader and you have been given the power by your people to be their leader. They know that you can protect them. However, you come here, engage in politics, laugh and go home. This is because we have bodyguards. Some of us laugh and probably we do not take care of those bodyguards. Probably the children of our bodyguards do not go to school but we want them to protect us. They cannot have food in our houses but we want them to protect us. We need to start this change ourselves. Let us not make it a game. The Senator for Kakamega likes putting this in a “bullfighting” manner and brings in the issue of land. Let us not bring in the issue of land because no person from the Coast has come to tell the Senate that the title deeds that the President gave out were for particular people or to the people of bara . Let us not do that now. Let us respect that. They have cried for the title deeds for 50 years. For the first time in their lives, they have"
}