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    "id": 881444,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "I rise to support on three grounds. One, the people who have been recommended are highly qualified. They are people of integrity. They are professionals. So, I believe strongly and I have read the comments by these nominees that they are going to embark on reforms in our police force. Two, I urge this House maybe to demand from the Committee to do some monitoring and evaluation on the welfare of our police force and come up with a report so that we can see whether the resources we are allocating to the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and the funds that they devote to police force, are adequate. If they are adequate, are they being applied appropriately? I believe that some of our policemen live in terrible conditions. Now they have been told to stay with us in the vijiji and yet the allowances they are going to be paid for rent is inadequate. Just imagine being in Nairobi and you are paid a house allowance of Kshs6,000. That cannot even get you a one-roomed house for you to stay with your family. It forces them to take their families back to their rural areas as they stay in Nairobi and other towns. So, let us take it upon ourselves as a House that manages and controls the budgetary process to allocate adequate resources to this force. In my view, these are people who offer themselves to die so that we can be alive. For example, those taking care of us as Members of Parliament are willing to die so that we can be alive. How can we pay back? Three, this country has embarked on the process of fighting corruption. If we empower our police force, we can succeed in fighting corruption in this country. Unless we fight and succeed in fighting corruption, this country is going to be another Venezuela or Zimbabwe where you are not safe, you do not have something to eat and you cannot afford medicine. This country will be insecure. That will not be a peaceful country. Finally, the police and defence forces in most countries are given adequate resources for them to perform well. Their welfare is taken care of better than any other sector of the economy. Why can we not emulate those countries and make sure that we allocate adequate resources to the police and the defence forces so that our country can be secure and safe? With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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