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"content": "to engage with live ammunition. This is because the policy of this Administration is such that police officers can use other methods of crowd control but no live bullets. We will have to find out the status update of the investigation on this matter and then report. The Member is free to visit us in our office. My colleagues, the Principal Secretaries and other senior officers, are here. We will support you to find justice for your constituents and make sure that those matters are taken up and dealt with to conclusion. We have nothing to hide. We have even told our police officers that anyone who uses their firearms to enforce law and order, and to defend themselves from being hurt by dangerous criminals, in the manner in which the Constitution and the law allows, will be defended everywhere and openly. This is because we also do not want our officers to be fodder for criminals. The same pain I feel when a citizen is killed by a police officer is the same pain I feel when a police officer wearing the uniform of our country is brought down by a criminal. Therefore, we will defend any officer who prevents a criminal from killing him or innocent people. At the same time, we have told all the ranks of our police officers that any police officer who misuses firearms outside the law to kill, will be on their own. In fact, the Government will be the one pursuing justice on behalf of those victims. Therefore, that is the policy position on the use of lethal force, especially by police officers. There was also an issue raised by the Member for Isiolo. I have been there three to four times. As I said, we are trying to do our best to make sure that we address the security challenges on the ground where they happen. The country is big. We have only been in office for six months. I want to assure you, Hon. Speaker, that after a year, I do not think there will be any part of the country or any constituency where the Minister and my colleagues in senior leadership of the Ministry would not have gone to assist you, leaders and your people, to tackle your security problems. We are on the way. It is only that we cannot be everywhere and we have only been in office for a very short period of time. In response to the question raised by the Member for Isiolo County, Hon. Mumina, we are ready to establish and deploy some police units in Mlango and Nyamicha areas as promised. I have been ready for the last two weeks. I contacted some leaders and I was advised that we deploy the officers immediately after Eid ul-Fitr. I promise concretely that within a month, we will have formed units in Nyamicha and Mlango so that we do not have the incidences that we have had there in the past. I also commit that we will establish the Gorbesa Police Post within the same period of a month. There is also the issue of NPRs, in respect of which we have had challenges because the deployments we need to do now are not provided for in the current Budget. So, we have had to stagger the deployment a little bit to allow us factor in budgetary provisions for the same. Therefore, where you have delays in some of the places that have been raised, it is because of budgetary constraints but every commitment that has been made will be met. We did not make any commitment just for the sake of it and, therefore, I will again expedite and prioritise the commitment for Isiolo. There is a request from Marsabit, which was raised by Hon. Dido Raso, about the area around Marsabit Town. In the next two to three weeks, we will deploy security officers because of the unique circumstances that the Member and leaders from Marsabit raised. Hon. Speaker, there was a question raised by the Member for Tiaty, Hon. Kamket, who correctly stated that he saw photographs of the Minister looking at Tiaty through a binoculars. He has no evidence because he was not there. He just saw a picture of me with a binoculars and he assumed that I was looking at Tiaty. He is correct to assume so because I am yet to visit Tiaty. I will be in Chemolingot on Tuesday and I will stay around for a while. I will also be visiting Elgeyo Marakwet, Lamu, Busia, Tana River and Baringo. It is going to be quite a heavy schedule and by the time we meet here next time, some of these problems will not be there. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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