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    "id": 501565,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, detection of crime is very critical. In the previous arrangements – I hope that this Senate will pass this Bill and that it will go to the Lower House and be passed as well – nobody cares about the current reservists. Nobody rewards them and nobody says anything about them. They have no uniform; boots and the guns they carry are at times given to them by the Government. At times, they rely on bullets they pick from here and there. We must now standardise. A police reservist or home-guard recognised by law is as good as any other police officer. They must be given uniforms even if they are not going to be put on payroll as the Bill suggests. However, they must be given some form of allowances. There should be some maintenance of their weapons; some armoury of sorts. In fact, they should be reporting to the nearest police station in terms of protection, storage of their arms and equipment in terms of work. When you go to a village in Laikipia or elsewhere, pick reservists, give them guns and forget that they exist, some of them are tempted to think that they have been given the guns to earn a living. They turn the guns to communities and become the criminals that we are trying to fight. Why would anybody and his family go hungry when the Government has given him a gun, bullets but does not get paid? He may start thinking how he will use the gun to raid and carry out poaching once they realise that elephant tasks make a lot of money. They shoot the elephants, remove the tasks and sell among 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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