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    "id": 397980,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mati",
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        "legal_name": "G.J. Munuve Mati",
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    "content": "every year and loses livestock every year, should not enjoy that national facility that other ASAL areas are supposed to have? I would urge that the Chairman of the Security Committee who is a friend of mine; even before we finish discussing the Motion; to help me get a few police reservists. They can walk across as they await their uniforms and they use their own as they wait the deliberations that we have today. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not want to emphasize the issue of arms. When we had police reservists in Mwingi North, they had G4s and not G3s. They also had Mark 4 guns. Mark 4 guns are not even a match for the Mkamba bows and arrows. They are basically walking sticks because you have to load every bullet, singly. By the time you load your one bullet, somebody with bows and arrows will have taken you down, even with a spear. So, I will urge that we improve the quality of the weapons that we give to the police reservists. We have to give them G4s or AKs. In any case, we are confiscating quite a few from hooligans and we may not need to actually invest a lot in procuring them. We just need to take stock of what is in police stations in terms of confiscated illegal arms and give them to police reservists. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I speak passionately on this matter and it will help hon. Lentoimaga because this country needs to up its operations in terms of security. It needs to take it very seriously, if we are to deal with the menace of arms in wrong hands. Cattle rustling was never a problem when the communities had only primitive weapons; bows, arrows and spears. Now with the sophistication and internationalization of weapons, it has become an industry which is worth billions. We need to invest heavily and make sure that since the Government cannot afford to give us all the policemen that we may require, both regular and administration, the communities should be given the responsibility of taking care of their own security. They should be given weapons to defend themselves. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I say this because last week, my constituents in Tseikuru District lost 34 cows to such bandits armed with AK47s. They had ten of them! That is by any standards, endemic. I want to thank the security forces in Tseikuru District because they managed to face those bandits and 27 livestock were returned. This is a very rare thing. I would like to commend them because rarely ever, do stolen livestock get returned or left by those bandits. So, I will support this Motion and the idea of some remuneration and motivation for police reservists and will beseech whoever is responsible for recruiting those people to do it in a way that allows for good people to become police reservists. We may actually get into this process and without proper vetting, we actually facilitate the strengthening of cattle rustlers by giving AK47s where they will be able to engage not only the police, but also the army. So, let us put in place a proper mechanism for community vetting of police reservists so that we get the best people. With these few remarks, I wish to support the Motion. Thank you."
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