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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "entitled to an operation allowance because then he is not serving in his station; he is considered to be working in a totally different environment and so he needs to be paid an allowance on top of his salary. I know of police officers who have been serving in those troubled areas for about six months now, but they say that they have not been paid their allowances. How come they have not been paid and yet this Parliament approves all the monies, including allowances to the police? The IG must ensure that the allowances due to the police in the remote areas are paid promptly so that they can work well with the knowledge that their welfare is taken well taken care of. The Government has spent a lot of money on protective gear. This includes the Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) and other protective gears. We need to ensure that the police are supplied with the necessary protective gear, that is, bullet vests, helmets and communication gadgets. I wish to reiterate that compensation meant for police officers should be paid promptly to their respective families. I heard Members saying that this Bill would interfere with another Bill. We should come up with better ways of compensating police officers. As my colleague, Hon. Rasso, said, we should learn from the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF). We need to go that route so that we can help the police get compensation the way it is done in the KDF. There is also another thing that is unique: the KDF has its own referral hospital, which is the Defence Forces Memorial Hospital in Nairobi. Police officers need to have their own hospital too. Money should be provided for this so that those who are injured, instead of going to private hospitals which are very expensive, get to be treated quickly and conveniently. The other issue is about qualifications. It is important to have good qualifications in the police service because they do investigations. They carry out a lot of crime investigations. So, they need to have higher qualifications specifically aligned to their areas of work. After Form Four or after getting degrees, they could be taken for courses that are relevant to the work they do. For the last almost 10 years when we have been faced with high unemployment rates in Kenya, it is only the police service that has been employing people. It has been happening that young men join the police but soon they realise it was not meant to be their job and so they run away after being trained. My time is running out, but I want to thank Samburu North residents for electing me during the primaries. I appeal to them to elect me in the forthcoming general election."
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