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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Langat",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Andrew Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also join my colleagues to congratulate the Senate Minority Leader for bringing this very timely and important Motion to this House. I condole with the Members of the Mt. Elgon community for this very shameful and regrettable situation that there are facing. The position taken by the police in this country is still regrettable. They are always reactive to situations instead of putting in place what I would rather say proactive measures that can help to reduce or curb the problem beforehand. I observe that there is a lapse in the intelligence among the police. This is because the area has been volatile for a long time. Those are the areas that should be staffed with many intelligence officers who can detect the security problems in advance and advise the Regular Police or the General Service Unit in time on what they are supposed to do. I tend to think that there is a problem when it comes to the various agencies of security. We read from the media, the community is complaining that the police officers posted to the area are drunkards. It is a disciplinary area because police officers who have nothing to do or are indiciplined, corrupt and drunk are posted to such areas. As a way of punishing them, you send them to such a volatile area. The reports that the people from the locality were giving are very true that the police were helpless. There was a woman who was crying that if the police had arrived even 30 minutes earlier, her husband could not have been killed. I think that the deployment of police officers to those areas is still a great challenge. The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and coordination of national government should take that into consideration. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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