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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mukhwana",
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        "legal_name": "Titus Khamala Mukhwana",
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    "content": "house and those of other officers were leaking terribly. It was literally raining in those houses. I also spoke to the County Commander of Kakamega County who told me he had to spend his own money to work on a Government house that he was going to occupy. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we are the custodians of the people of this country and we speak on their behalf. We are their voice. The police out there are bashed. For some reason, I did not like them because they were throwing teargas at me. Being a preacher on the other hand, I was tempted to say a bad prayer against them. I was telling God how I did not like them, but when we face reality, you see how they live with us. When you raise an alarm at night, they respond. When I drive from here to Kakamega at night, through Nakuru, Burnt Forest and Kapsabet, and it is very cold in Burnt Forest, I find police officers manning the roads at night. You sympathize with them. So, we should unanimously, as a House, legislate to improve their welfare. Actually, this is like a bailout because even when I looked at what was coming out that their allowances were going to be slashed, I knew we were courting trouble. When you slash their allowances, you are simply amplifying corruption. The vice will increase and we will have other criminal activities. These people have to survive. How are they going to survive when they do not have what they need to survive? Hon. Members, through the Speaker, need to totally support our police officers. We should allocate more money for trainings, not just trainings for formality, but training that can bring about change. When they continue through their continuous assessments, we have to see replication of the same, that we are actually putting in money and we can see their code of conduct changing. Some of them operate under a lot of duress. When I meet some of them on the road and they know I am a church man, they say: “Bishop, give us something if you have some offering from church. Give us something small here.” Being a church man, I do not like giving. I like receiving money."
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