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"content": "lives? Where are we headed? The oil we are finding in Tukana will come to naught because these same criminal gangs will now hijack every barrel of oil leaving the oil fields and the mafia will move in. We live in a country where people worship money. Nobody talks of earning money; everybody talks of making money. Those who live in the comfort zones know that if you are a decision maker in last ten years or more--- An internal former Permanent Secretary called James Mathenge – I believe Sen. Murungi and Sen. Kagwe remember – was raided by thugs, but what they did, I do not know. You remember the dreaded, my late friend – God rest his soul in eternal peace - John Michuki, they attempted to attack his home. There was even a police commissioner who was attacked somewhere here in Upper Hill. If the Commissioner of Police is not safe, who is safe? You read in the newspapers everyday of policemen being beaten up by youths. What kind of policeman is this who can just be attacked by youths and yet he is trained to protect other people? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, because these reservists are not going to be on the payroll, and therefore, they will not weigh heavy on the national Budget, the money that is being squandered and splashed around in harambees can best be put in security. It is not enough to stand up and blame the Pokots or the Tukanas because after the blame, so what? When you have ca problem, conventional wisdom has it that you do not look for who to blame, but a solution. What is the solution? The solution is lying in this Bill being passed. We want to see a more secure Kenya, a better policed Kenya, a police force that observes human rights, a police force that protects people and their property, a police force that is proud to be a police force. Some five years ago, I went to Malaysia, and my escort officer who was a police inspector told me that he had left a job as a manager of a bank to go to the police because the police are paid better, they have better housing and have better facilities. In this country, the most downtrodden public servants are the police and the teachers. If you start with the police officers that we are talking about, if you have any relative who is a policeman, you should go to where they live and you will see; five policemen living in one room divided by a piece of cloth and they have families. The small room is divided, not by a wall or a cardboard, but a piece of clothing known as pasia and yet you expect them to come out and defend and protect the people. For a long time, we have heard of many fraudulent schemes in this country to build houses for the police. Everytime you will hear grand plans. “We are going to build 10,000 houses for policemen.” Those 10,000 houses end up in the pockets of people and no house is built. Budgets are made and money is expended, but the police officers continue living the way they do. If they are so demoralized like that, how do we expect them to even do what we expect them to do? That is why you saw the clips on the terror attack on Westgate Mall. The Kenya Defence Force which had gone there to help victims were helping themselves; running away with the loot, literally. You saw it in the clips; I am not inventing this. Why would anybody do that? It is because they are deprived. The police and teachers of this country should be the best paid workers. Collectively, we carry this responsibility and shame; that a policeman who rides with you in your Mercedes Benz everyday, at the end of day, has to walk home. Recently, we buried a police officer in my village, in Bungoma, because he was driving a Member 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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