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    "id": 398207,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Our National Police Service appears not to be working, and what the hon. Member who made the Motion believes is that the way therefore to get security is to empower some civilians called KPR. I have looked at the relevant law, the law creating the KPR. Really, under Section 115 of the relevant Act, there is nothing like allowances contemplated for a Police Reservist. In fact, it is strictly prohibited. If you look at all that relevant law, it is not contemplated these individuals ought to be armed in the manner we are proposing. To address the issue of constitutionality of this unit, that is a debate for another day. This is not to say that insecurity is not an issue in these parts of the country. We must be wearily of a situation where we are creating sectional forces for sections of this country. That today we have a unit for Arid and Semi-Arid areas, tomorrow we have units elsewhere. The problem with our force, and I wanted to array the fear of the hon. Member who was sending sympathizes to me, I do not know over what, is laxity and the manner in which we recruit our police officers and, in fact, the entire security apparatus and the facilities we give them. In my constituency, I had a constituent raided by people who did not mind to rob him off anything. He was beaten properly and taken to Homa Bay District Hospital and on the day he returned to his house, and this is a short while ago, hardly a month ago, the same raiders attacked again and ensured they killed him on that day. This is hardly two kilometers from the County Police Headquarters in my constituency of Homa Bay Town. A short while sometimes last year, if the nation would remember, we had a situation of the guards guarding supermarkets in Homa Bay town, up to seven of them being stabbed to death using knives, not a gun or anything else, hardly 100 meters from the police station. When we checked and protested, we found a situation where the police officers essentially had cleared everybody from the streets, ten minutes to the attack. We see a situation where there is a possibility of complicity and in such situations what we therefore should be talking as Members is how we discipline the police officers. Since we protested---"
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