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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute in this Motion as amended. The police force is one of the forces that are very close to the hearts of Kenyans when it comes to security issues and the extra work they normally do. But, we have seen numerous shifts and migrations from this force because of the pathetic situation they normally operate in. I listened to my brother, Hon. Tim Wanyonyi, describe a police house. These police officers do not live in houses most of the times. They live in tins, those metallic round things which Hon. Waluke must know their proper names. Sometimes you find them sharing that tinned shack between, not just two policemen but with their families. They are also human beings and they also have families and a life to live. I had a very nasty experience when I came to this House. I was given a bodyguard from my rural home. Of course, they have to live here when we come to Nairobi. The nearest place he could get a place to live in was somewhere in the west of this city. He was given a room in a house that was being shared by another police officer with two wives and four children. Some of the children were grown up daughters. What was between those two rooms was just a curtain. You wonder how this young man was supposed to share that room and even the bathroom facilities with the other family and observe his privacy and, of course, respect the privacy of the other house. It is a very difficult situation. Under such circumstances and if someone got another job that is well paying, they will just leave. What is the effect of this? I have seen that most of the pilots who fly the choppers at Wilson Airport are former police officers who were trained using taxpayers’ money. Even the owners of the choppers trust them more because they feel they have better training than civilians. What happens is that we end up having more mediocre pilots who are left behind to fly our dignitaries. I have heard and I would not want to say it with a lot of confidence because whatever is rumoured in Kenya could hold a bit of truth, that the pilots who flew the former Vice-President Hon. Saitoti may not have had many flying miles as compared to those who fly these private choppers. The more flying miles you have, the more the experience. Sometimes we lose lives under very critical situations where they would have been saved if we maintained experienced pilots so that they can be value for money for the Kenyan taxpayer. Training a pilot costs a lot of money, especially a chopper pilot. These are some of the things we are saying are a brain drain which is not ordinary like the ones we find in these other jobs. This is because training a pilot costs a lot of money since these are specialised trainings and it is taxpayers’ money. The fact that they do not stay long enough to be able to deliver what they are trained for is a loss to the Kenyans. It is not just the chopper pilots. I am told that Kenya Airways (KQ) prefers the same pilots who have been trained in the 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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