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    "id": 573324,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also air my views regarding this Motion. I know that I supported the amendments. That is because the amendments made significant improvement on the Motion as it was. However, there are certain aspects of this Motion that I have difficulty with, and would make me unable to support it fully in the form it is. I am personally not comfortable with the issue of bonding. I do not think that, that is the route we should be going. That is taking a shortcut when we know the root causes of why we have such a high turnover in the police force. What we should be dealing with should be those root causes rather than trying to look for a shortcut. From my own experience of having been quite a long practising human resource manager, you are much better of having an officer who is willing, trained and happy. What we should be looking at is: How do we make or achieve a good working environment that will attract qualified and able people and retain them? I think that is what we should be looking at. You are really worse off if you are going to have an officer who is merely there, marking time and waiting for the period of the bond or the bondage as one of my colleagues alluded to, to end. They will not give you 100 per cent service. In fact, they will just give you part of it. That is why you find they are not committed and are de-motivated. It is worse having such a person than having somebody that enjoys and has job satisfaction. It is the responsibility of the Government to educate its population and equip it with skills, including of those kinds. The shortages that we may be experiencing will be fairly artificial. It is as a result of poor planning. It is as a result of not matching the job market with the skills that we are giving to our population. How come that whenever recruitment---"
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