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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for allowing me to contribute to this Bill. I congratulate the distinguished Senator for West Pokot who has brought this Bill; first through a Motion, then the Bill which he prosecuted efficiently and ably before the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations where Sen. G.G Kariuki, other Senators and I are Members. In this country, we have words or titles that are used interchangeably. Police reservists and home-guards in some places appear to mean the same thing, I stand guided. This Bill is important to the extent that it seeks to institutionalize, professionalize and put some level of command to the police reservists who hitherto have been operating in a very disjointed manner. This country is facing a lot of challenges at the security front. You can count literally everywhere where the policing authorities are probably not meeting the expectations of Kenyans, are totally overwhelmed or they do not have the facilities to do the job. How else would you explain, in the last two or three weeks, there have been more than ten incidences reported in the media of attacks on our armed security and even installations? How do you explain young Kenyans with machetes taking courage to raid military barracks? When we were growing up, everybody knew that a military barrack was a no-go zone. Young men with machetes not only wrecked and raided a military barracks but also killed one military officer and walked away. Look at the Kapedo issue. In fact, the police management must be held to account. How do you take young police recruits, hardly a year in the service, six months to be exact, and send them to a terrain that is difficult where you need the most experienced police officers to operate? How do you put them in a truck, ill equipped with no information and rudderless? They 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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