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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, a lot has been said about this Bill. I have one or two points to make. One, this is a developing country and like all developing countries we have a lot of inadequacies. At the moment, one of them is insecurity which appears to be completely out of hand. The call for recruitment of more KPRs is timely. Of course, this varies from place to place. There are some places where it is more serious than others. However, overall, calling for the training and recruiting of more KPRs will effectively fill the gap of the police where the ratio of the police to the residents is very low. Once they go through training, there will be proper accountability of their operations. That is not enough; it is also important for them to be facilitated. We do not want a team of reservists who are not facilitated to do their work. The other point is that recently we had a recruitment of 10,000 police officers, but I believe now it is in abeyance because some people went to court. When you look at the recruitment process itself, it is such that you end up with a group of people without real commitment. In many places, the highest bidder is recruited occasioned by the process being so fraudulent. Eventually, the people recruited are the ones who could afford to pay what was required to be paid to whoever it was to be paid. These people are not committed to their duties because they were just looking for a job. They are not committed to be police officers. The final and most important point is that whether they are reservists, whether we call them regular police or APs, they must be facilitated. Where I come from and this might be the case with all counties, when young men and women graduate from the police college, they expect to get facilities like housing. However, when they are posted, they are confronted by the rude shock. There are no staff quarters for them. They have no where to stay. Sometimes you find three or four officers being taken to a police post. 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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