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    "id": 573305,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "nine months only. They face very difficult situations and even the sound of a gun scares them. They put their guns down, remember their degrees and run home. So, we cannot fight terrorism, cattle rustlers or bandits when we are sending the wrong people to fight with these hardcore criminals. I am saying that we must match jobs with skills. Even in the private sector where I worked for many years, you cannot have somebody holding the position of a manager if he is not trained. There is no way you can have a well trained manager working as a watchman at the gate. You must match skills with jobs. So, in the police service, we must identify talent. We must identify the people who will be police officers sitting in the office and planning. They must be very well trained in that line. They must be people who are well educated with even Masters Degrees and PhDs. For our servicemen who are supposed to fight and follow command, one does not need to have a degree. There are many people who are now asking for transfers. When officers are being released from Kiganjo, we get a lot of calls from officers wanting to be transferred to Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret and other urban centres. Why? They want to pursue degrees. In this country, we have moved away from looking at service delivery to looking for papers. I am not a proponent of equal pay for equal skill only. We must also consider delivery of service. If somebody has performed exemplary, you should reward that person and, therefore, there will be differentiation of pay depending on skill, training and performance. That is how we are going to perform. On the Motion which is before us, first, we must develop a structure of pay, benefits and other things like accommodation. There was a very good plan of building houses for police officers. Once you have that structure in place, then go for the individuals and employ the right people. If we want cadets, we employ people who are well educated. If we want servicemen, there is no harm in employing from Standard Eight all the way to Form Four. The reason why we have many criminals in this country is because we have a dangerous gap. There are people who attained below Grade D+ (plus) and there are others who did not proceed beyond Standard Eight. These are youths lying idle at home. What do you expect them to do? They become the right target for criminals and Al-Shabaab to take them away from this country. We must look at those people. It is a big percentage. If you look at the transition from Standard Eight to high school, you will see that many people drop in between. Many people complete Form Four and are not in tertiary colleges or universities. Where are they? They are lying idle. We must have a clear structure in the police service so that when these police officers are trained and have been given the job, they must stay there for a certain number of years. However, we must look at their welfare. In any organisation including the Government, when you are trained, you must be bonded for a certain number of years depending on the level of training so that you are restricted from moving away from your job until the tentative cost of your training is fully recovered through provision of service to the country. This Motion is in the right direction but there are many things that need to be addressed before we can implement it. These include proper pay, housing and proper identification of the right people for the jobs, so that when you are providing the bond, you are providing it for the right person to stay in that job. Staying is not important. What is important is the satisfaction which that person has to offer service within that bonded period. If 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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