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    "id": 825615,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/825615/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "As I wind up, there is still a problem with our police service which IPOA must act very fast to help correct. There are question marks about the police. I watched in the media when it was being asked whether Parliament is the weak link in the fight against corruption. As I agree that Parliament is the weakest link, there is also a weak link in the police force. Just the other day in my county the DPP did the right thing to order for the arrest of seven officials of that county, who are accused of embezzling a lot of money from the county assembly. The biggest culprit who is the clerk and the head of finance decided to disappear from Thursday. By Sunday we were aware that they were going to be presented today and taken to court when the others are just about to be given bond. Others have been denied bond from Thursday to today. True to that, today they were found which means someone knew where these people were. These are the serious culprits. In fact the public who were watching them being brought to court thought they were dignitaries or VIP, yet the others were properly handled. That is one thing that makes people lose confidence in the police service. If someone is accused of serious crime like that… by the way this is someone we started talking about long time ago. When you are stealing, people will see it. Nobody was taking action. Now that action is supposed to be taken against those gentlemen, they are being treated with kid gloves. The police officers are bringing him to court like he is a very important person. These are the things that we expect the IPOA to look at. The public is complaining, they call some of us and tell us to look at the way the police in Homa Bay are behaving. So, the head of police service in Homa Bay needs to understand that the people they are serving there are not very happy with the way they handle some of these things. That is the work of the IPOA. As I conclude, the police service has been accused of a lot of crimes against the citizen of this country in terms of handling demonstrations, picketing and public in general. It is high time the police service gets to the reform agenda. If the commission is not going to help, the IPOA needs to tell Kenyans what to do. We need to reform the police service to be a service. The IPOA continues to be an authority yet we reformed it and we wanted it to be a service."
}