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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Muthama",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Nduya Muthama",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will try to use the 12 minutes to the maximum. The Motion I am moving now which I started yesterday is very clear and direct to the point. My concern is about young people who have sons and daughters. They get employed in the military and other security organs. Most of them are young officers who do not have any technical background by the time that they are put on the front line of their profession. Most of them, once they die in the line of duty, do not get compensated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, from experience, when our young boys and girls were sent to Somalia, some of them were killed there and their bodies were flown back to this country. About three to four of them came from Kangundo Constituency that I used to represent. I attended their funeral services and the most devastating point was that one with a very young family with children between two and four years old was not compensated. Their wives were moved out of the military camps and taken home. In the process, I had to hold fundraisings to assist the families of the deceased soldiers. That is as a result of bad arrangements within the Government. You can imagine a young woman being left with two children to fend for when her young husband has been killed and they are taken back to their rural homes where there is no water and other basic necessities, yet these children have to be taken to school. This Motion should take care of those families. I want to give a very good example of what happened at the Westgate Mall attack where we kept on complaining that our military officers were not professionals because instead of going to contain the situation, they went to steal water, milk and bread. This was as a result of their lives and those of their families not being guaranteed. For us to come out as leaders and be seen to be leading, it is not about the Head of State, the Cabinet Secretaries, the Chief of General Staff or the Inspector General of Police, it is about the Kenyans we are leading. When we talk about spending money, the low class people in this country do not see the money that is being spent and squandered, left right and centre. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you are my witness that you are guarded by police officers who earn peanuts. Their salary is between Kshs15, 000 and Kshs18, 000. They can see you contributing Kshs20, 000 in a function and the same thing happens the following week. In a month, they will have witnessed you giving out between Kshs80,000 to Kshs100,000. To the mind of this guard, that is a big amount of money. They also know that you have an insurance cover for yourself and your family when it comes to hospitalization whereas the money they earn is what they are supposed to use to cater for the treatment of their families. There is no guarantee that should they face armed thugs and get killed, their children and wives will ever be taken care of. This Motion is urging the Government to make sure that they are given full insurance even if it is not the Government that is going to compensate the victims. The Government should have an insurance cover for the police officers who are killed in the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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