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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "forces. What is in place to retain them and make them work for the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government or the police force? The crime rate in this country is not a secret. We have seen former police officers who have been arraigned in court for having been involved in robbery in broad daylight like other robbers. We have seen it in the media and in courts. You know you cannot compare an armed former police officer with an ordinary thug in the streets, even if it is a member of Mungiki. That is a person with expertise. That is somebody who has been trained to handle guns and criminals. It is like sending a thief to catch a thief. Some of these happenings are because these people have been out of job. You may have got a job with a private company with a lot of hope and expectations. You of course know that the private sector may not give you the terms and conditions like the ones you have in the public sector. Therefore, they sometimes end up losing their jobs. I know an officer who was doing very well in the police force. He was offered a job at the airport by one of the companies that export goods and he was laid off after about one or two years. Nowadays he is on Mombasa Road. You know what happens on Mombasa Road at night. Armed robbers never used to be there in Ukambani. Nowadays you find so many of them there. It is because of such reasons. Therefore, I want to thank Hon. Waluke for having realised there is need for us to regularise this and urge the Government to employ and retain rather than encourage this brain drain which can be a very expensive affair. It is not just turnover or brain drain; it is a risky affair even to Kenyans. With those few remarks, I want to support the Motion. Thank you."
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