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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Karani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Wachira Karani",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would also like to join my colleagues and Kenyans to condole the families of the 28 people who were killed in Mandera. I wish to add my voice on this topic. The ratio of police to Kenyans is very low. One police officer is assigned to many Kenyans. It becomes impossible to handle them. One way of solving that problem is to recruit more police officers. This parliament has done its part. It has appropriated funds for that exercise. The Executive arranged recruitment to be done on14th of July. Five months down the line, those young men and women who were recruited successfully have not joined the Police Force because they have not been trained. We have a lot of wastage in this country. We have officers who are being paid fully to recruit and train those young men and women in Embakasi, Kiganjo and Ruaraka. For three months, they have been earning their salaries without doing their work as trainers. That is because one arm of the Government is not doing its work. It is true that the courts have rights to give all types of orders. For five months now, they have not given a verdict on the recruitment case. They could have given it a priority so that our recruited young men and women can go to college. We have a very sad case in my constituency. There is a young girl aged 27 years whose parents died of HIV/AIDS. They were left under the care of her grandmother who is blind. On that particular recruitment day, they called me when I was in this House. They requested me to give them fare so that, that girl could go for recruitment. Fortunately, the girl was successfully recruited. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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