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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Prof.) Kithure Kindiki)]: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the question from the distinguished Senator for Kiambu County is legitimate. At the moment, out of the 1,300 police stations we have in Kenya, about 700 do not have vehicles. That is more than half of the police stations in our country. A number of police divisions do not also have facilities. We have been engaged as a Ministry with the National Treasury for the past one year, so that we can renew and expand the leasing programme, which had provided us with space to equip and provide vehicles for our law enforcement officials. Due to the fiscal situation that the country has been going through for the past two years, we have been negotiating with the National Treasury. Our demand for police, national Government administration officers and all the players, including the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), is that we asked for 4,000 vehicles through the leasing programme. However, we have been brought to the reality that the economy cannot carry that request. In the last two weeks, we almost agreed on an allocation of 1,600 vehicles for all our agencies in the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. We shall allocate to the various agencies prudently and on a need basis. We shall give priority to the police because they are on the frontline of law enforcement and making sure that we have public safety. Therefore, I want to assure the distinguished Senator for Kiambu County, who almost got me worried when he said they used to look up to us, I almost asked what happened, but then he acquitted himself by saying that we still do. I remain available to support brilliant young leadership in both Houses of Parliament. It is my sincere statement that this Senate is doing better than the previous Houses. I have always told the Senate Majority Leader that he is likely, consequentially, to be the greatest Senate Majority Leader until he is dethroned by another Senate Majority Leader who will succeed him. He now has the title of the greatest Senate Majority Leader. Having said so, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I assure the Senator for Kiambu that we should remain in touch. We will give priority to the needs of Kiambu when we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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