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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "The other front that has been neglected is their salaries which have not been improved. As Members of Parliament, we must push and ask our Government to improve the salaries of these young men and women, if we want to retain them in Service. Obviously, it is human nature that if somebody gets greener pastures, he or she will move. Since I belong to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, I must say that the Government has hired very many young men and women and most of them are graduating from these colleges. We have seen the numbers increasing. However, the question we need to ask is whether they are being paid well. We agree that the numbers are increasing; we have been employing them in good numbers of about 5,000 yearly. Last year, we employed about 10,000. This year they are probably going to employ in large numbers. The questions we must ask are: When these people graduate and go to serve, are the houses they are expected to live in, in good condition? Are the salaries being paid to them enough and commensurate with the work they do? Those are the key issues that we must address. The other issue is that we must look at the entire security force. It is not just about the police. We have Deputy County Commissioners, County Commissioners, Assistant County Commissioners down to chiefs and Assistant Chiefs. Are they taken care of when it comes to their working conditions, housing and such like things? That is something that we must address, as a House, because it is a problem. You cannot continue saying that you must put a curfew on the officers not to leave and yet you are not taking care of their welfare. We must look at it in its entirety. You have all heard that the Government has recruited about 700 Assistant County Commissioners. You should also know that most of them left for the county governments simply because they thought that the county governments would pay them better than what the national Government is paying. It is a good thing to move to greener pastures. However, we must also ask something about the training we have given that particular individual. It must be used properly. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. With those few remarks and because I want to give my colleagues a chance to also contribute, I just want to say that, as a country, we are moving forward and we must support it where necessary. We also must criticize when they do not do the right thing. Thank you for the opportunity."
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