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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "there. People who are qualified for other professions do not want to go there because if you train as a teacher, upon graduation, you take years before you are employed. Those who go to any technical institute or university for degrees take years before they get employed. This is an easy way to employment and that is why many youths are rushing there. The country should be very careful in handling these youths in the force in terms of remuneration, housing and job distribution. You find that a police officer who does not know somebody senior at the force is deployed in Mandera almost indefinitely or he is taken to the worst corners of this country and are not rotated to any other place. Those who have close relatives in the force are brought here in Nairobi at the Central Police Station or to police stations near their homes so that they can live comfortably. The rest who do not know anybody, those who join the force from poor backgrounds, are taken to a place where they are vulnerable to diseases, or where their lives are at risk from Al Shabaab attacks. Nobody will ever bother to take you out, unless you use money to get out of that place. Therefore, the force should develop a program where if you are stationed in a remote place for two or three years, you should be due for a transfer without even requesting for it. I have constituents who have been languishing in some police stations in North Eastern. One has been there for fifteen years and has even forgotten his home and his children are wondering when their father will ever come back. Nobody sees that. There are those who if you transfer them today, after a week, you will see them back because somebody brought them back. Therefore, these disparities and the nepotism which is being experienced in the force is demoralising most police officers. I now want to speak to this Motion which is seeking to establish good housing and remuneration. We are talking of remuneration, but the other week we heard that those who were already going to school to improve their qualifications to get better remuneration have had their salaries cut already. The other day I was watching television and I found out that there is an officer who receives Kshs161 as a monthly pay. This person has been in the office for 30 days, has a family, needs to eat, has children in school and many other requirements. He has also taken loans to do other things. Then, considering all those obligations, he or she is told that the salary for the month is Kshs161! How do you expect that officer to work prudently? How do you expect that officer to be sober enough to serve the public? Since he has a lethal weapon in his hand, at any little provocation, he will just point it at you, himself or the crowd. We have to be careful when making these decisions. There are police officers who live in a uni-hut like my brother has said. I am sure they can hardly sleep at night because of the cold. They cannot stay there during the day because of the heat. Where will they stay yet they are not amphibians? How do you work? How do you become a bodyguard of a Member of Parliament or a Cabinet Secretary when you sleep in the cold while your master sleeps in warm blankets? Do you expect them to be very comfortable protecting you? If danger comes, he will duck and you will die. We have to take care of them because they are human beings. I have put up several police houses in various police stations and police posts in my constituency. Before the construction of a house is complete, an officer of the rank of inspector would rush to book its occupation because the house is good. The simple constables for whom the houses have been constructed are thrown out and taken back to the uni- huts. That is when they turn against their leaders. It is high time we looked at this issue prudently. Imagine somebody writing a circular that somebody who has been maimed in the line of duty will not be compensated. There are officers who are shot at and injured and so they are incapable of performing their duties. They are then told they will not be paid any allowances and yet they will be paying taxes and they 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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