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    "id": 742439,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/742439/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Farah",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2231,
        "legal_name": "Abdulaziz Ali Farah",
        "slug": "abdulaziz-ali-farah"
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    "content": "The Supplementary Budget targets the security in this country. In the recent primaries, every polling station needed to be guarded by security personnel. It will be the same thing during the election on 8th August 2017. Therefore, there is need to have the right financial support to do it rightly. We have also seen that there has been an increase in the recruitment of officers. All these activities need money. So, this Budget is targeting those activities in order to synchronise the country during this period of elections. We have the new component of the National Police Reservists (NPRs) in some parts of this country, especially the area I come from. We have requested to have a good number of NPRs like was the case when we had in place the Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs). We requested for that security personnel because the criminals that cause havoc in our regions can only be deterred by people who behave, dress, eat and walk like them. So, we recruited NPRs who can walk out in the night just like the bandits and the terror groups. That also has a budgetary implication, which the Supplementary Budget is addressing. I hope the Cabinet Secretary will fast-track it before the elections so that the security apparatus are in place in those counties that require the NPRs. As the Chairman has mentioned, we have issues to grapple with ranging from salaries, medical supplies and donor fatigue. I, therefore, second."
}