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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "politicians will not take advantage of the youths; where everybody will have an opportunity to grow and become responsible citizens. If we cannot practice what we preach, the buck stops backs with us. I want to challenge the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs, and Human Rights legal who gave his Report. Yes, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) was set up to deal with various issues. They include to investigate deaths and serious injuries caused by police action, monitor, review and audit investigations and action by the internal affairs unit of the police and to conduct inspection of police premises, among many others. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to inform the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs, and Human Rights that on 14th February, 2020, on Valentines Day, there was a special Gazette Notice which designated police stations countrywide. The first thing we need to do is to ensure that when we are talking about a budget, in most cases--- I am happy the Chairperson of Committee on Finance and Budget is here, we can say in this Senate that we know where 10 per cent goes, which is the Kshs360 billion, but we do not know where the 90 per cent go. When we get into these discussions, since I am seeing that we will end up going into the issue of mediation, the fast thing we need to ask ourselves is: What does the Constitution say in Article 203, in terms of the priorities when the budgets are coming out? This time round we have designated police stations countrywide. In Narok East we have two of them, we have Ildamat police station. You can look at that Gazette Notice and get the coordinates to know where it is. There is also Suswa police station, but let us ask ourselves: In this Budget, how much is being put in there to ensure that the welfare of these police officers and the premises which we are sending the IPOA officer to go and inspect are actually fit for that police officer to be there? Madam Temporary Speaker, last week, I happened to be arrested and ended up in Kilimani police station. I looked at the police station and the neighborhood; affluent, a concrete jungle with many big buildings worth billions. I looked at the condition of the police station that is supposed to provide security for the people and wondered. We then come here and blame the police for extrajudicial killings, tell them that they are the cause of all these things and call for reports on human rights. What about their own rights? These are the questions that we must ask in this country. If we want proper leadership, we have to ensure that those who are tasked with the responsibility of protecting us---"
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