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    "id": 881388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
        "slug": "david-ole-sankok"
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, I support these nominees especially because they meet the two-thirds gender balance rule. Looking at their names, the appointing authority tried as much as possible to ensure regional balance. I have some reservations. Many people with disabilities who acquired their disability during old age were mostly courtesy of road accidents and violence. Majority of them who acquire disabilities through violence are in the police service. It would have been imperative for the appointing authority to make sure that in this particular commission, there is somebody with disabilities. Even if we will miss out on other commissions, it was very important for us to have a representative of persons with disabilities in the National Police Service Commission. I have received a lot of complaints from police officers who acquired their disabilities in their line of duty, have been stigmatised and sometimes sacked from the service simply because they acquired disability while protecting this nation. As I support this list, I plead with the appointing authority that in the next appointments of commissioners, they should consider persons with disabilities. A person with disabilities would have greatly benefited this commission. As you know, the Police Service requires physical strength. Any one of us is a candidate for disability including those police officers. The moment they acquire their disability through disease, bullets or accidents, it becomes very difficult to serve in that service. It would have been very nice and imperative to have a commissioner with disability in the NPSC so that we can know ways of dealing with those who have acquired disabilities while protecting our citizens. At times, we advise them to appoint police officers who have acquired disabilities in office work in writing AOBs. Hon. Speaker, my brother is a regular visitor to such stations. I am not so I may forget some of these things. He has assured me that it is called an Occurrence Book (OB). Police 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."
}