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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shill",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elias Bare Shill",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is not only about cattle rustling; it is about security. Recently in my constituency at a place called Galmagala there were only five police officers and Al-Shabaab attacked them and killed all of them. If we had other ten KPRs at that time who know about the terrain and can walk long distances, they would have followed those people. They would have secured the situation but this did not happen because we have left our civilians unarmed and we have not given them adequate security. It happened also in Dadaab Constituency. People have crossed all the way 100 kilometres from the border to come and kill chiefs and Administration Police (AP) officers and what did the Government do? They even removed those few officers and took them away. They said that they want to now have a policy whereby APs and police officers must not be less than ten. So, they have left all those areas without security because the people who are supposed to be hunting the criminals are being hunted. So, it is a different case. Hon. Deputy Speaker, what we are asking for in this Motion is to have registered KPRs who have been vetted and we give them some incentives like beautiful uniform, automatic weapons and some allowances so that they do not go hungry. How can you give a gun to somebody with no money? Try to improve their working conditions and this will help. Hon. Deputy Speaker, two neighbouring countries which are also members of the IGAD that is Ethiopia and Uganda have done wonders. Are the civilians of Uganda and Ethiopia much better than those of Kenya? We always run away. We think that by giving weapons to some of those people then something dangerous will happen. We are always living in fear. Why should you stop somebody from protecting himself and yet you cannot protect him? This is the essence of the matter. Hon. Deputy Speaker, recently there were so many problems in Garissa County. Garissa Town itself was seized by the Al Shabaab to the point whereby our police could not leave their police stations. The traffic police could not go to some zones of Garissa The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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