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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to support the amendment by Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo. You will understand what this Bill means, particularly if you come from pastoralist areas, the Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASAL) which have been marginalised for a long time. I believe that this is a timely Bill. We know that there is a shortage of uniformed police formerly known as the Administration Police (AP) and the regular police. It is important, at this stage, for me to disclose that my reading of the amendment shows that this Bill does not have sufficient capacity to be called a Bill that concerns counties. The reason I have said that is because its reference, as the Sen. said in his memorandum regarding its concern to counties stretches the interpretation of what concerns counties. However, I believe that this Bill should go deeper to provide the role of county governments; the place of county governments and their place as far as matters of police reservists are concerned. I am saying this because these counties, as the Senator has expressed in the memorandum, which are marginalised, are suffering underdevelopment because of insecurity. Therefore, once the Bill gets to the Third Stage, I will be proposing that it be amended to provide an opportunity for county governments that will have extra resources to support police services to put those resources on the police reservists. We have seen some counties buying vehicles for the police. We have seen some counties investing in technological equipment for the police. Under the law, it should be permissible for counties to invest in security and as far KPRs is concerned as it has been proposed by the Senator. To make this Bill even stronger, the place and role of the county governments and the contextualisation of the management of the reservists at a local level needs to be provided. As such, I believe that the National Police Service (NPS) using the existing county police committees should form a committee that will have a representation of county governments which together with the NPS will manage the national reservists. Apart from protection of properties, peace, law, order and apprehension of offenders, reservists should be given an opportunity to carry out other functions that are related to the counties, particularly social functions. Sensitisation of locals on matters of security should also be allowed. There should be sensitisation on matters regarding peace, not just preservation, but also sensitisation and training of other responsible citizens on matters of security, peace, law and order. I also believe that if we want to make this country a place we are all proud of, we need to use the KPRs to win back some of our youth who have previously been involved in crime. We have been told stories about people who have been recruited to go and fight in a country like Somalia. We have had situations where some youth have been recruited to be cattle rustlers. Others have been recruited to other unlawful activities. One way of winning them back to become good and responsible citizens, considering that they already have basic training on matters of firearms and insecurity, we can rehabilitate them by hiring them to be part of the police reservists. As such we can 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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