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    "id": 133223,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": " Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion. The core function of this Ministry is to ensure that there is peace and security in this country. Indeed, the fundamental function of any Government is to protect the lives and property of its citizens. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to congratulate my colleague Prof. George Saitoti and his team at the Office of the President for protecting the lives and property of Kenyans although they have faced very difficult challenges. I have read both in the local and international media, people talking about Kenya as a failed state. I do not think these people have done an analysis of what constitutes a failed State. A failed state is not constituted by a strong Government. The cause of a failed state is a weak Government which is not able to control militias and other armed gangs within its own territory. If you look at Somalia as an example of a failed state, it is a failed state because there are warlords. Various clans are competing for the control of arms. The moment you hear the Kenyan Army has disintegrated and that we have no unified police force is when Kenya will be a failed state. For now, Kenya is, by no means, a failed state. We faced tremendous challenges as a result of the post election violence. However, we are slowly coming out of that. One of the challenges we face is that the per capita ratio of our security officers at the Rift Valley at that particular moment was too low. The ratio was five police officers per 1,000 youths. Where would one start? Therefore, allow me to support the Government for its programme to expand the police force and the Administrative Police because we need more security officers in this country. Allow me to congratulate His Excellency the President and my colleague here for converting every constituency in this country into a district. When we were in the Opposition, we used to say that the Provincial Administration was going to bring oppression closer to the people. There has been the retraining of chiefs and these days, the Provincial Administration is bringing peace, security and development closer to the people."
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