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    "id": 506628,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/506628/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2756,
        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. First of all, I want to say that as for our being in Somalia, we are a community of nations and we have strategic interest in Somalia. So in my view, we must remain in Somalia for us to remain safe in Kenya. Secondly, I am talking from a point of experience. One problem that we have in the security apparatus in this country is at the level of the county. This country is divided into 47 counties and each county has a district or county security committee. During our time, somebody had to be responsible for the welfare and the security of people in a county. This issue of parallel commands must be put to rest. We must have a legislation here to ensure that we have one person; either the County Commissioner or one police commander because that is where the problem is. At the county level, even when hon. Members here go to the county, you will find that you have to go to the Regular Police commander and the Administration Police commander to seek some answers. We need to put that to rest and ensure that one person who has a committee under him can make decisions and give orders. Policemen are command-driven. They are disciplined organizations just like the armed forces. So, they need to be deployed using order and discipline. Sometime back we made an amendment to the National Police Service on Kenya Police Reservists (KPR). They are still not being deployed well, yet we made an amendment here to ensure that they are trained. They should be paid, but nothing has changed since that time. We need to make sure that those people who live in areas that are remote, that are prone to cattle rustling, make us of the local people. They need the Kenya Police Reservists who are used to the terrain; who are hardened like the cattle rustlers to ensure that they work hard and eradicate cattle rustling. We also had the Safaricom surveillance equipment---"
}