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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "on issues of discipline in the police force, and making decisions on who to deploy where and why, that is going to solve the problems of insecurity of this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have the issue of Westgate that happened recently. When the police officers got there and we also had the General Service Unit (GSU)--- All the armed forces including the army went there, and there was no command. There was nobody to issue a command because we did not have a single person to do that. It was a divided house. What happens if the IG disciplines a police officer and that police officer decides to say: “No. I will not listen to you. Let me go to Kavuludi or somebody else?” What will be happening in this country? We will be having a divided house. We are all parents and we know one thing. If you are a parent and you are trying to discipline your child, your child will try to go to the other parent and try to get sympathy. As parents, we know the good parenting law is that--- As parents even, if you do not agree with your wife or your husband--- You have to agree with so that the child can be disciplined. If you have a house where the mother says this and the father says the other, the child will never be disciplined and that is what we are talking about. We need discipline in our forces; if we need discipline in our forces we need someone to be in command; I am supporting this Bill to make sure that we give the IG the powers to make a decisions and those decisions be final, so that we can have order in the police force. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another issue I want to raise is that one which was raised by somebody about using firearms. I know that in the whole world ours is the only country where somebody can approach a policeman and cut him with a machete. I have buried more than two people in Cherangany. I have attended burials of two police officers. One of them was an Officer Commanding a Station (OCS) in Mombasa. When I went to that burial and I looked at the body of that OCS, he had been cut beyond recognition. I asked myself a question: How do you allow a police officer not to use his firearm until he is cut into small pieces? We cannot allow that. We need to give them the powers to defend themselves and be able to protect themselves, and so that if somebody approaches them they are not killed, otherwise we will end up with police officers being killed everywhere, even on the streets. I support this Bill to make sure that we bring in order. We should have somebody who is in command. We have people who can stand for their rights and have order in the police service. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance."
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