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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aluoch",
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        "legal_name": "John Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This Motion could not have come at a better time from a better person as we try to implement the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. A better person because Hon. Waluke is not just an internationally trained military person, but is also world-recognized because of that training with money from the Kenyan taxpayers. Recently, when I went with him to Namibia, the founder President Sam Nujoma recognized him as having been in the Kenya Battalion (Kenbatt) when Namibia got independence. I think we are digressing. The important thing is to understand that the Motion is talking about specialized training by police officers. It is not just welfare or remuneration. In my other life before I came to this Parliament, I interacted very closely with specialized law enforcement agencies. I know that the focus of this Motion should be on people like ballistic and firearms experts, people like document examiners and arm writing experts, people like Interpol and personnel who are involved in international border crime. Training those types of staff takes time and public money. Once they have acquired the skills, they should be made to stay for a while before they go to the banking, insurance or private investigation industries. I say that because from my experience, many serious court cases are lost because we do not have people who can give evidence in court in those specialized fields. Many times, document examiners in matters involving fraud and forgeries do not come to courts in time. We have only three document examiners for the whole Republic and they have to keep on shuttling all over the Republic. At the same time, they have got to attend courts and they do not have time to look at the documents. At the end of the day, serious criminals go scot-free because of lack of evidence. That applies across the line to the other experts. Once we train them, we must find a way of remunerating them well and letting them stay to give evidence."
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