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    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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        "legal_name": "Andrew Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to contribute to this Motion because it is very important. The police force is one of the most important departments of the Government of Kenya. They are responsible for our security. If somebody has a problem, the first person he begins to think of is the police. He begins to wonder how he can be rescued. He calls somebody, if he cannot do it himself, to tell the police to come to his rescue. But one thing I must admit is that the police is very much disadvantaged. I will take an example of my place in Karachuonyo, Kendu Bay. I went to their station and what you see as their residential house is laughable. You will not even think a human being can be sleeping in that makeshift. In fact, I even offered to contribute some money from the National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF). I will see the head of the police force, so that we can share the cost to build some houses for the officers to live in. Some of my colleagues have already mentioned what I do not want to repeat. If you share a makeshift house and you are a bachelor and the other person is married, I do not need to explain further, but this is what we are subjecting them to. It is time we gave police officers what they need, so that they can give us what we need from them. If somebody is frustrated, that person can get out of his way, like another speaker said, to look for money using any method possible including bribery and stealing. Let us not subject our important people like the police to that kind of thing. We will demand from them that they give us the service that we need. Give it without reproach. This can only be possible if they are well remunerated. They have a salary you cannot talk of. It is almost nothing. They are working for almost nothing yet they are the people who stay under the sun without sitting down. They stand throughout the day, yet they do not have enough money and are hungry. Those who are bold enough will tell you that they are hungry and ask if you can give them something to eat. If you are kind hearted, you will do that, but if they do not get kind hearted people, they will use any other method which is corruptive to get what they need for survival. This is what we are subjecting them to. I have spoken in their favour. Let me turn against them a little and say that they are also having their excesses. When there is a problem, they treat Kenyans as though they are not human beings. They should not do this. They are the protectors of people’s rights and interests. If you have done something wrong, that does not remove your humanity. Let them treat you as a human being and in accordance with the great Constitution of this country so that if you were arrested, you are punished. You accept that you made a mistake. This does not mean that when 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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