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    "id": 783185,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/783185/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Hassan Omar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 431,
        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, from the outset, I wish to state that the Kenya Police is one of the best trained professional forces in the world. However, the officers remain the worst remunerated and housed in worst conditions in the world. Over the years, the Kenya Government has proposed reforms, especially reforms that were initiated in 2011 which envisaged provision of adequate and decent housing, improved welfare and salaries for police officers. These policy documents have remained on paper. We know that currently, a constable earns below Kshs20,000. That is not a salary. It is a joke. Police officers are human beings like other people. They have needs. They pay school fees for their children and feed their parents. Their salary cannot cater for their basic needs. If you walk into any police station in areas in northern Kenya or even in many parts of the country, you will see prison officers living in very deplorable housing units like corrugated iron sheet huts. This has led to serious stress among the officers. We have seen officers committing suicide or killing each other. This is as a result of the living conditions in those quarters."
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