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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mukhwana",
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        "legal_name": "Titus Khamala Mukhwana",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to appreciate this Motion. In my Constituency, Lurambi in Kakamega, we had an issue where a child was murdered. That was not the doing of the police, but I saw what the reaction was. I found myself on the side of the police even though as a politician, naturally, I should be on the side of the people. Police are generally condemned. For every bad thing, the blame ends with them. Our policemen live in deplorable conditions. The policemen and police women are human beings. They are just like any other Kenyans. They deserve a better place and dignity. When I went to visit the security guard assigned to me in his house, I found that he lives with another family together with his wife and children and they are literally separated by a curtain. These are young families. You can imagine the conditions they live in when they want to have their own wonderful time as a family. There is no wall that separates them. Even animals surely have a better place in the jungle. I support this Motion fully because we know that in every group of people, we may have a few individuals who are not good. Therefore, we cannot, in a blanket, condemn the police service and say that police officers are not good people because maybe they have thrown teargas at us at one point or another. We cannot say that they do not deserve anything better. In this world and this country, if we did not have police officers serving us 24/7, what would be? Where would our country be? One of the reasons we have so much corruption within the service and some officers picking a little money and going after old mamas who are doing the illicit brew business is because the amounts on their pay slips cannot sustain them. That is why we see rampant corruption. They have to do all these acts because they want to make up. They also want to have a life. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, police officers who serve this country are parents. They have children in school. When the Government talks about free education, we as Members of Parliament who are parents realise that it is not actually free education. There is money paid. When you look at a pay slip of a police officer, you wonder where they get money to send their children to school so that their kids can also have a future. That is why I stand on the Floor of this House to say, from a practical point of view, having looked at how police officers live, and having relatives who are serving in the service, this House needs to support this Motion so that we can have our police officers living in good conditions. This is not only happening in North Eastern, but I have also seen it in Kakamega when it rains. In fact, on Monday, I was talking to the Administration Police Sub-County Commander of Kakamega Central and he told me that his 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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