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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Amendment Bill. After reading it carefully, I think that Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo has done it very intelligently. It is a very well crafted Amendment Bill so that it complies. Somebody is whispering to me that he is a very intelligent professor and I agree. We cannot talk about this country in the same sentence with the word security. We have had so much insecurity in the recent past than we have ever had since Independence. Sometimes you wonder whether you will wake up and find gangsters just running around town like Al Capone . Therefore, in my contribution that is why I said that Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo was more intelligent in the amendment to Section 110. We have seen in the past that these reservists who are just volunteers have turned into what the Senate Minority Leader calls kamikazes; people who are just loose cannons. Shoot to kill, shoot from the hip, operate with arms, nobody knows what they do, they report to nobody, except God. They shoot whoever they want and disappear somewhere into oblivion without any responsibility. The idea of the amendment, therefore, to Section 110 to include the proposal that these people will no longer be volunteers, that they will be vetted and enrolled in the police service is a clear attempt to ensure that they will not be operating loosely. They have been operating loosely, using weapons reckless, wearing long shirts, untucked and sagging jeans. We want them to be responsible under the National Police Commission (NPC). They would then fall under the rules and conditions that every other police officer as defined under this Act, then is supposed to. Therefore, failure to which they become subject again to the disciplinary processes that are under the Act to that extent. That is why I said that this amendment is very intelligent because the ambiguity that our Parliament left in Section 110 has created abuse to the extent that these 18 year olds who have guns have been operating loosely. I have an example; a son of one of our senators, Sen. Yusuf Haji, was given a high commendation for the work that he did at the Westgate Mall. Just imagine that the gentleman was trained in the manner that is proposed in the amendment to Section 110(1). He would have done much better. The 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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