Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 563265,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/563265/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 271,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
        "slug": "jimmy-angwenyi"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this important Motion. Thank you again for recognising the service that we have given to this country through legislation. That is recognised and appreciated in other jurisdictions. However, this Bill should have come here 20 years ago. Our security would have been secured. This Bill introduces four important items. The first one is the registration of the people who are providing security. We want to know them. The second issue is to establish standards in terms of which basis they will be registered. That is very important. I hope this will include some form of training; two or three months training. The Government should contribute towards this by providing trainers to train these people before they take up their jobs. The third issue is that it opens up our doors for investment. When we say that we must have a local contribution of 25 per cent, we are encouraging more investors into this country. Through the 75 per cent, we will attract foreign investments in our country thereby creating employment which is a big issue in this country. If we establish this Authority with the requirement to register and meet certain standards, we can persuade some of the organisations which have been declared illegal, but are doing a very good job, like the Chinkororo in Kisii, to participate in this sector. The Chinkororo in Kisii have reduced the crime rate in Kisii by 70 per cent. The Sungu Sungu has reduced the crime level in Kisii by about 80 per cent. This is in the areas they operate. Let us register and recognise them, so that they can provide service and reduce crime in that area and maybe in the rest of Kenya. There are close to 500,000 security guards in this country. If we did not have these security firms, those people would be jobless and would cause insecurity. Let us encourage more people to invest in this area and we recognise them. We should make sure that their salary scales are equal to the services that they provide. We should allow them to be unionisable so that they can negotiate their terms of service. We should also make sure that they get medical insurance as well as pension so that when they retire or when they leave work, they get something to lean on and go to hospital when they fall sick, the same way you and I do. That will make our people healthier and secure. Finally, let us not micro-manage these companies in terms of telling them what age they can employ somebody and the salaries they should give. That is not our job. Our job is to establish this Authority to provide employment to our people. Let us allow them to carry guns. However, those who will be allowed to carry guns should be well trained in terms of discipline and on how to use the guns. We should make sure that the guns are not in the wrong hands. This will make our country secure. With those few remarks, I would like to support."
}