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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the police force in this country is enjoying a very dirty image. The other day, the distinguished Senator for Nyeri, talked about the manner of training and the need for continuous training to keep the police force abreast with the changing circumstances under which they operate. You saw what happened in Kapenguria last week. Yesterday, there was a story of a policeman who dressed himself in a gunny bag and stood outside a police station in Langata the whole day, demanding to have audience with the Inspector-General (IG) of Police. As a policeman, I am sure he knows where the office of the IG is; it is not at the Langata Police Station. Could the chairman tell the country what we are going to do to rationalize and improve the process of recruitment into the police, including removing the bottlenecks that the distinguished Senator for Homa Bay has cited? Mr. Speaker, Sir, last year in Kisii County, Sen. Obure and Sen. Ong’era can bear me witness, a man collapsed and died because he sold land and bribed the recruitment officers with Kshs300,000, to recruit his son, but when he went to Kiganjo, he was not on the list. He sold the family possession, collapsed and died. How are we going to weed out this cutting of corners, corruption and so on? What happens is that when a family buys a position for the son to join the police, he is instructed to be corrupt in order to bring back the family land that was sold. They, therefore, think that is a way of life."
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