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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to have the first shot on this Motion after the proposer and the seconder. This Motion is not new in this Parliament. In the last Parliament, we had a similar Motion and I do not know if it saw the light of day. I pray that as we discuss or debate this Motion, it will not be lost in the archives of the people who should enact or put them into effect. The police force has been the talk of town in this country both positively and negatively in many aspects. This is because of the way they have been conducting their business from when they are recruited to when they are taken to serve the public in various parts of this county. The force has been bedevilled with issues of corruption from the word go. Any time there is recruitment of police officers, the whole country gets full with brokers running left, right and centre trying to solicit money from parents who are desperately in need of having their children enlisted in the force. At the end of the day, many people lose their money and therefore, once one becomes a police officer, he is a product of corruption from the word go. Even before you go to Kiganjo for training, you are already corrupt because you corrupted your way to become a police officer. That is why you find most police officers are not people who are called for the job or were not willing to go there. It is because they had a relative who had enough money to get them there. Once you find that they are not doing their work properly, it was not their calling, they were pushed there. The other angle to look at corruption in the force is, when new officers assume duty, they meet their colleagues who have already marred the profession. They then join the trail and the cycle continues. The police force is the easiest employer these days because the Government assimilates youth every year. After every passing out parade, another lot of about 10,000 youth is recruited. After you go for training, you are immediately employed. That is why everybody is rushing The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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