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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Muhia",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": "At the outset, I want to support this Bill. As a member of the Security Committee, I realise that Members are contributing on very critical issues that we may have left out. Possibly, we may need to consider them at the Third Stage because the Bill seems to concentrate so much on the firms, while leaving the guards behind. Considering the matters of security in this country, I want to plead with Members that, as we discuss, we go and read this Bill time and again. We need to come out of the cocoon where we want to sympathise with the guards because they serve at night and all that. I want us to use the same guards because they are estimated to be 400,000 in the security sector. Indeed, they could be the eyes of this Government in terms of complementing security. When we visit some countries in Europe, we see G4S and other guards all over, and they are very well trained. There is operational training and back- office training. So, even without the guns, as some Members are suggesting, they are able to identify the crime in any scene. There is enough numbers to complement the security that we are really struggling with in this country. On matters of registration, we need to make it very strict such that we do not have on board people who have served jail terms. Businessmen have opened security firms for business reasons; not to secure the country. Those businessmen will go and get people from all over, train them for two days; that is, mark-time one, two, three and then, they give them rungus to guard our houses when we are at work. When you leave the guard behind, the next moment, he or she commits a crime. He could rape or do all manner of crimes. So, this legislation needs to be there. We need to be very strict. The licence needs to be renewed as regularly as possible. The certificate of good conduct is key and very necessary here. 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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