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    "id": 416147,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/416147/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "expected vetting of the ordinary police officer. Some of these people are already feeling victimized; they are living behind dukas and bars, because the Government has never provided them with infrastructure. Hon. Speaker, go to Parklands Police Station; I was there the other day for a traffic offence, somebody had hit my car. As you drive in, you see policemen living in something which is not even a mabati structure. It is something covered, and that is the house where many of them are living. It is sad that the Government cannot respond to this as a priority, as opposed to going after them and not even trying to implement the law. Hon. Kimunya and I, in the last Parliament, passed a comprehensive law on traffic. Nobody is following the law. Take for example the so called “alcoblow”; a gentleman told me the other day that his daughter was caught around Nyayo Stadium very drunk. He gave Kshs.5,000 and she was left to continue driving. She could have killed somebody or herself. There are issues that we need to address in this issue of police, which are not what is in this proposed Bill. This Bill is only about the failure of the Executive in directing the implementation of the Constitution. Nothing stops the President, whom we pledged to support, from pushing the"
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