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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "was leading that organization because then we end up with that scenario. I want to plead to the Parliamentary Committee to be vigilant. If the assistant is an officer from the AP and he refuses to assist, let us kick him out because security is paramount to the well- being of our country. We cannot have our police bosses fighting and yet, Kenyans are dying. I appeal to the Parliamentary Committee to deal with the issue of police corruption on our roads because the laws are there. I sponsored an amendment to the Traffic Act. In that amendment, it says that the Inspector-General of Police must gazette police roadblocks. The whole idea behind that is that, if I take a matatu from Gilgil to Naivasha, I will know where the police are. Between Gilgil and Naivasha, you cannot overload a vehicle because somebody must be going from Gilgil to Naivasha, if it is the traffic offences that they are looking for. Then there are random policemen on the streets looking for over-speeding drivers. What we have is looting on the streets by the traffic police. In that amendment, I proposed that all policemen should be responsible for the wellbeing of Kenyans. There is no law and there should not be in the police force such a department called Traffic Police Department. That is the root of corruption and appetite. I want to appeal to the Committee to revise and look at what we did not do and what we did that is not being implemented. There is no reason why there should be a policeman flagging any vehicle on the roads in places that are un-gazetted. This country must move forward and we must drop anything repugnant that stops this economy from functioning. I support."
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