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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "it would help in such instances. We should provide timelines for compensation so that we do not have cases where people move back and forth trying to get compensation. The only challenge I have with this Bill is where it provides that a member of the Service may designate a person who shall be a beneficiary, and who may change the name of such a person at any time. If you look at this on the face of it, you will find that it does not look like a problematic clause but in reality, it may clash with the law of succession. The law of succession is very clear about who is to inherit. I want to assume, for instance, that you have a married member of the service who designates a girlfriend or boyfriend instead of the wife and children, or who designates the wife and in the process of quarrelling he replaces the name of the wife with that of a girlfriend. In that process, he will have disinherited the family. Therefore, I encourage Hon. Nassir – although I do not see him here – to bring an amendment to align the Bill with the law of succession so that we do not disinherit widows and orphans. We do not want instances where somebody is deceased and then people start fighting at the funeral. Many people do not know that dues of a deceased person are not inherited at the funeral. In order to ensure that we do not have cases like the ones we have witnessed in the past, I encourage Hon. Nassir to bring an amendment to make it clear that even when you designate a person, he or she should be a person as provided by law. I know that this is a very good step towards compensation, but I wish he had brought a further amendment to address the issues of accommodation and living conditions of police officers. When I became the Member of Parliament for Mbita, I found the police living in extremely pathetic conditions. I want to single out two islands, namely; Remba and Ringiti. The police there provide very critical services to us. Two days ago, 29 fishermen were arrested and taken to Uganda and yet the police officers they rely on are the ones in Ringiti and Remba islands, who lack a patrol boat and other facility. They were taken to Lolwe Island in Uganda and charged. This is a very big problem. We keep raising it in Parliament but the Government is not taking it seriously. I was talking about the pathetic living conditions of police officers in the context of the living conditions of the officers in those islands. When I saw how pathetic the situation was, I decided to prioritise their living conditions through the NG-CDF. Over and above their living conditions, we must provide them with other equipment that will enable them to protect our fishermen in the waters, so that we do not have a situation where our fishermen are harassed all the time. I urge the Government to sort out the border issues once and for all and establish friendly relations with our Ugandan counterparts because even when we have our borders it is impossible for people to fish in the waters of the Kenyan side alone. Kenyan fishermen will always go to Uganda and vice versa. Hon. Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to support and urge the Government to take urgent action in relation to the fishermen of those islands."
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