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    "id": 736206,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/736206/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2960,
        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "As we speak, majority of police officers particularly those in the lower cadres are living under deplorable conditions. Their conditions are deplorable to say the least. Therefore, even as we address issues to do with the Police Service, one of the critical things that this House or the next House needs to put emphasis on is the welfare of police officers. The idea that resources are not adequate to remunerate and take care of these officers can no longer hold water. This country loses a lot of money every single day through corruption. That is no longer news. We lose so much money that if we could seal those loopholes through which money is lost every day - money which is siphoned from the public coffers and ends up in individual pockets of well- connected persons - we would save money to remunerate the police officers adequately. We can never be safe in the hands of police officers whose conditions are deplorable. You cannot be safe if you are being guarded by police officers who have serious financial problems as a result of poor remuneration in addition to poor living conditions. If you look at the shacks in which these officers live, you will sympathise. Let us therefore take it upon ourselves as a House and as a country that the officers whose duty is to provide security and to maintain law and order be remunerated appropriately."
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