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    "content": "for the country. We are not shown even the KDF who are in Somalia fighting for the country. We do not even spare a day in a year to remember them. We do not remember or celebrate them even once a year. Catering for the education of the children will make them realize that, indeed, their father worked. They will feel like they are enjoying the fruits of the duties that he did for the country. We need to find ways of enforcing the culture of appreciating what others have done. This should not just stop at the burial, but go beyond. In Kenya, after we bury someone, we are done with them. I was surprised to know that in Ghana, they even make posters when you have died to celebrate you. In our country, if you die in the line of duty, the only thing that they will do, which they did in Murang’a when we were burying the young girl who was a pilot, was the 21-gun salute. This does not even show that, indeed, we have celebrated their lives or even guaranteed the future of their families. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to give another example of Tana River County. Young police officers were sent there during the conflict directly from college. Eight of them were butchered because they did not know the area. I remember that some of them were from Busia and their parents were affected. They wondered whether they did the right thing to allow them to join the forces, because they never even worked or received salary for one month. So, we need to look at the whole package for the security officers. We are even talking about the challenge of gayism and so on. These officers leave their wives in the rural areas and go to work. They end up living with other women and they end up killing one another. How can we ensure that their families can have that dignity which the Constitution is very clear about? The late Michuki had started a very good programme to give these officers good housing. He knew that the moment we give them good shelter and allowances, they will start appreciating their work. But if we keep forcing them to work under difficult conditions, they will not perform well. For example, if we let our traffic officers stand and control traffic for the whole day, they will definitely engage in corruption and ask for money for them to survive. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even as we do the vetting of the police officers, we need to ask ourselves whether we are doing it in the right way. Is the process becoming too personal, that some of the officers are jittery? Some of them are even resigning so that they do not undergo the vetting process, yet they have been in the force for many years and are experienced. They are resigning because they feel that their rights in terms of defending themselves and owning property are also being violated. This House has an opportunity to also look at that, so that we do not go so deep and hence, bring anger in the service. We know that this is a very sensitive service. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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