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    "id": 416380,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/416380/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to speak to basically three things in a very short manner. One, the things that are facing us in terms of security and police are more to do with professionalism in the institution. They are issues to do with ethics and relational arrangements between the police and the other sectors of the society. They are not necessarily issues of command. I think that is where there is a little bit of a difference and a problem between what the Bill has and what we actually experience. The Bill has not come up in a proper manner in trying to address the whole issue of professionalism in the police. It is not handling issues of ethics and relations and those are some of the things that we have been seeing. We have experienced them in a negative manner in the Kenyan society. So, I believe if we did not use issues of command as answers to some of the problems that we experience, then the Bill will be making some good headway in terms of inculcating professionalism in the police institution. However, the more we try to emphasis on command, the more we are also creating or placing levels of resistance. I think that has been the biggest problem that we have had. In terms of rankings, the higher an officer is the more space is created for resistance and that is not getting solved here by the Bill. So, it is the whole issue of ethics."
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