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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) B.N. Nyaga",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Nkatha Nyaga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Before I contribute to the Motion, I would like to support the sentiments of my colleagues – that, we need to implement the Motions we have been passing in this House. I remember very well in the last Parliament, we had almost the same Motion. I do not know what really happened. So, we should be implementing every Motion that is passed by this House. In supporting the Motion, my colleagues earlier on said that Kenya is different. I agree with that. But I want to say that a police officer in Northern Kenya is the same as a police officer in Nairobi. They need to be treated and remunerated in the same way. They need to have houses and not structures, as Hon. Florence has said. Those people live in pathetic situations. Some of them stand on the road for seven hours. Whether it is raining or sunny, he is there throughout. He has nowhere to sit and nothing to eat. When you see them walking on the road, even the dressing and the berets they have on their heads are weather-beaten. You cannot know if it is black or white. The shirts they put on are supposed to be blue, but their colour has changed. Why can we not now look after those officers? The officers we are talking about are in the junior ranks. They have nobody to look after them. They protect the 50 million Kenyans. Who is going to protect those officers? It is the laws we make in this House that will protect those officers. We need to remunerate them properly because some of them stagnate in one grade for more than 20 years. What happens? Why really? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you must be surprised that those who were attached to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in the last elections have not been paid to date. If they are paid, that money does not reach the junior officers. Where does that money go? Then we say that those officers are taking Kshs200 or Kshs300 from anybody on the road. Why should they not take? We need to tell the senior officers and their bosses that they need to give them what is required of them. We are talking of the junior police officers who protect us and who are supposed to protect our properties. We are talking of building our economy. We cannot build our economy when our security is not properly taken care of. This security is taken care of by the junior police officer who is supposed to be taken care of properly. He is supposed to be housed by the Kenya Government. He is supposed to have a decent bed and is also supposed to have his children going to better schools. Even if they are given the same salary as mine, I would not mind. Let them get proper allowances whenever they are working. I support and thank the Member who brought this Motion to the House. 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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