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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I highly respect hon. Lentoimaga. In fact, he was a District Commissioner in my district before he became a politician. So, I respect him highly. There is no doubt about that, but I do not think we should be curtailing debate when we have a clear issue to raise. What I would propose is that, instead of us passing a Motion calling for the entrenchment of the KPRs, we do the following: One, the recruitment of members of our disciplined forces should be as fair as possible. There are parts of this country which do not have a single soldier. In fact, you may have an entire constituency without a soldier. We have lost a soldier in the Westgate Shopping Mall massacre. He was possibly the only soldier we have had in the entire Homa Bay Town Constituency. So, while recruiting members of the Armed Forces, let us make sure that we spread the available slots across the country. Two, we need to deal with the issue of training and discipline. That is what I was emphasising, instead of running away from the core police establishment to empower people outside it. What is this business of giving firearms and other facilities to people 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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