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    "id": 504893,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "officers are low. A police officer starts with a salary of Ksh.18,000. The house allowance is Ksh.1,800. Where on earth can you get a house for Ksh.1,800 even in the slums? For insecurity to disappear, it will not be because we employ another 10, 20 or even a million police officers. We did not have insecurity before when we had fewer police officers. Let us motivate our police officers. Even if we buy those 1,000 vehicles or the best guns, so long as they are not motivated, there will be no security. When a police officer dies in the line of duty, their families are supposed to be given Ksh.10 million but no police officer’s family has been paid the Kshs.10 million. Let us motivate our police officers by giving them a better pay, better houses and take care of their welfare. If we do that, insecurity will be a thing of the past. However, if we maintain that we are giving them cars, nothing will work. Let us not target just certain people. Let us review the whole system. Let us start with this National Assembly and appropriate more money for police reforms. Until we put money in the Budget and that money is used properly to build better houses for them and pay them better salaries, we will talk about insecurity until chicken come home. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to finish by saying this: Poverty is also contributing to this insecurity. Many insecurity incidents, apart from Westgate, happen where communities have been neglected for a long time."
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