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    "content": "also that we do not have better roads for some of the vehicles that our officers use, we will have a highly reduced kind of banditry or cattle rustling taking place. We can have as many camps as we can and these camps are mobile. If we find an active route which is regularly used by criminals and bandits, where they think our usual officers, GSU or police do not know those routes, we post those people there. What will they be eating in the camp? Just like we feed the police and the GSU, that is the way these people will be given food. That is why we are proposing a kind of a honoraria where their children and their families can be able to get food and buy sugar. I may concentrate on the pastoralist region, sometimes, the Government gives out relief food like it is happening in the northern Kenya because of the drought but nobody remembers these ones. The families are taken care of but the ones carrying the weapons and protecting people are not given anything. In Baragoi, where the problem happened last year and a few incidences are still happening now, if we were able to get KPR from the Samburu community and from Turkana and they are trained to stay together-Bandits fear attacking “themselves” if I may be allowed to use that terminology, they do not. So, if they work closely, these incidences and the same we saw where some bandits just wake to trap officers along the road who are on duty, will not occur because the KPRs, who are locals, will be able to trap them or alert the authorities that something is happening. If you remember, there was a time we had serious problems along the Kenya – Uganda border, where the Karamajong of Uganda, Turkana and Pokot were having nightmares. Today, you can walk among the three communities and find that we have sealed a lot of peace - I was there over the weekend and there is a lot of businesses coming up and now schools and other businesses thrive there because there is peace. This is because of coming up with a strategy. One factor that can contribute heavily to the restoration and maintenance of peace is using the local community. Our Constitution or the National Police Service Act has for the first time recognized the National Police Reservists but they did not go further to say when they are here, just like paying a police officer salary per month, what honoraria do you give this one? That is just what is missing here so is training, uniforms and so on. Sometimes, some are killed. I read today that three KPRs were killed in Isiolo yesterday. There was banditry around there. When this person is killed, his family will be left without the head. How are they compensated? He died in the line of duty, carrying an official Government arm, but after that, he is just forgotten just like that. This is what we need to consider in this Bill, that as soon as they are captured here, we will be able to train these people and be able to utilize and use their local expertise in bringing peace and order. I know KPRs can be used anywhere in Kenya. The problems we are seeing in Mombasa at the moment, if we had KPRs, some of these incidences that we see would easily come down drastically in the manner in which they are occurring, mainly because these reservists stay with the people in the villages or in the estates. As at now in Kenya, we need to try all available techniques to make sure that we secure the peace of our people. KPRs will be one unit that will eliminate cattle rustling completely in Kenya if we engage them and use them. Wazees or elders in the villages 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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