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    "id": 563202,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/563202/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving this chance to support the Private Security Regulation Bill. It is shocking that this country, in this age and time, has not passed this piece of legislation in a country where security is the main business. Any investor who would like to make money very quickly in Kenya should invest in security. Unfortunately, the investors in that sector have the habit, conduct and will to abuse and under- employ the people who work in that industry. The people who work in that industry are watchmen and security guards. This Bill stipulates that they will all be registered. Recently, we passed the Fair Administrative Act. It is important to expedite the registration of security providers. After the passage of this Bill, nobody will be employed as a watchman or a security guard without registration. We will know how many they are and the conditions under which they work. The registration should be made as easy as possible. I have also seen in this Bill that there is a prescribed fee which will probably come with the regulations. But I am afraid that if that fee is kept to a maximum, it will hurt the stakeholders. The fee should be regulated so that if a security provider has to pay, it must be at the minimum. I am not thinking about private firms but private individuals who, out of their own accord, want to be employed not because they are working for a security firm but because, as individual, they have found a job to guard a family, for instance. Those people are not regulated. They are not well remunerated and they are not captured in any union. They are poorly paid and they work under very poor conditions. They are not given proper equipment. They are not recognized and they are not captured in any data. Therefore, those are the people we should be talking about."
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