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    "id": 398147,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakuleu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisropher Doye Nakuleu",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am going to give my contribution, but I found it worthwhile for me to express that point. This Motion is quite timely and hon. Lentoimaga did well to bring it at the opportune time, when Kenya is in a security crisis. One reason why I feel that the issue of the KPRs must be expedited in Kenya is the failure of the regular security systems. Looking at the Kenyan borders, very few regular and Administration Police officers have been deployed there. The same forces are not sufficient to contain the influx of outsiders into the country. A case in point is the border between Ethiopia and Kenya, which is in the constituency that I represent. This month alone, Kenya lost 21 persons to the Ethiopian militia. At the same spot where these people were killed, there is a contingent of the GSU, RDU, APs and the regular police officers. Whenever an attack is carried out, they never come out of their station. It is only with the help of the locals, in the form of the KPRs, that the Kenyan citizens, specifically the Turkanas, can be secure. When you ask why they did not come out of the camp, they say that, “We did not come here to die. We have children and families. We have wives and we are here to earn salaries. How can I miss this month’s salary because of going to fight for the Turkanas?”. Such officers do not have the patriotism to protect their country. Every region has unique circumstances in security matters; why do we not adopt the KPR model, where every community recruits its own people, especially for those communities living along the border? By this I mean Turkana, Marsabit and Mandera counties."
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