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    "content": "are because of their levels of migration. They keep on moving from one place to another. However, not enough effort has been made to have any form of record. The numbers are high. Conservative estimates keep it at 16,500 police reservists. I think it is much higher. The Rift Valley could have over 9,000 police reservists; eastern, 5,000 and above, north eastern, over 5,000 and above and coastal counties, over 3,000 and above. Firearms have been misused and it is known. This has been stated. Indeed, in 2017, about 170 reservists in Moyale were disbanded because of hiring their arms to criminals. The issue of misuse of firearms has been discussed, poor training and supervision, lack of operational policy and governance, formal compensation mechanisms which means that we let them find their ways of surviving one way or another, lack of control in terms of recruitment, lack of record keeping and lack of operational mandate which has made their role to be politicized. In the build up to the referendum or to any rally, they have moved and shifted their roles from livestock security to providing private security and being in political rallies; tasks that they have not been necessarily trained for. Sometimes, they have been hired for political agendas to protect certain Members. They are open to do anything at any time. The implication of small arms is that it causes a lot of ripples. The proliferation of small arms has increased very much. It will be very dangerous when everybody feels that they need to be armed so as to protect themselves. That is what insecurity does. Over time, when you feel as if the system is not looking into your problems and helping you to solve them, you take it upon yourself and that is what may be happening. The control of proliferation of small arms has not been well done by the Government because these KPRs are hiding this equipment. We already have a resource. All we need to do is to think about nurturing the resource, looking at the policy and recognizing the important role that police reservists have played over time. Once that is in place, we should come up with a policy that will streamline their engagements, training and remuneration. Once we do this, compensation will be very easy. I think this is a task that the Senate needs to be devoted to. Prof. Lonyangapuo, I congratulate you for bringing this Motion. Once again, I support the Motion."
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