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    "content": "Hon. (Prof.) Kithure Kindiki): Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. With regards to the statement raised by the distinguished Senator for Lamu County, just as he has thanked us; my colleagues and I in the Ministry, we are also very grateful to the political leadership of Lamu County. We had started with a little bit of turbulence. We had a very unpleasant engagement at the beginning with the political leaders of Lamu County, including the Governor, the Senator, the Woman Representative and the Members of Parliament (MPs). We had a very turbulent and unpleasant encounter, which as I said earlier on, comes with this territory. National security is like that. National security and politics are not 100 per cent symmetrical. There are rough patches along the way. I can see others here, some of them looking at me, for whom we have had some moments and later those moments have gone and we have the good moments. So, I am very grateful to the political leaders of Lamu County. Much of the current normalcy that we continue to engage in, although we are still on high alert, has been contributed by the maturity, sobriety and leadership of Lamu County. We are very grateful. Many of our national security problems are caused by us. We sometimes take advantage of insecurity. We rope in politics, religion and other things and complicate a problem, which would have been resolved easily. I am very grateful for Lamu and many other counties, which had issues and now we are managing them together with their leaders. The Government will provide money during the Financial Year 2024/2025 to start the construction of the offices for the Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) for Lamu West at Mpeketoni. Regarding staffing of police stations, police posts and patrol bases within Lamu, I have already asked the Inspector General (IG) of the National Police Service (NPS) to gazette. This is because for police stations, it is the IG who gazettes those facilities after sending a team to inspect them and ensure they have the basic amenities like the armoury and other critical facilities like a cell for men, women and children which is now standard in all our police facilities. As soon as the IG is satisfied with the structural integrity of that space, he will gazette, and we will deploy. We have enough officers in this country. We have 106,000 police officers for a population of slightly above 50 million. We have enough officers to post to Lamu and all the other parts of the country that are needy. I have also been asked a question by the distinguished Senator for Samburu County, which is one of the counties that has experienced very painful moments because of criminal activities and organized crime. I want to respond by saying that, yes, the process of establishing an additional sub-county and other administrative units in that county is underway. I already engaged the leaders and we agreed on what they needed to do in consultation and, of course, with the DCC and the County Commissioner (CC) in Samburu, so that the public participation process is impeccable. Once we conclude and gazette, we are not taken to courts over headquarters and the other issues. In any case, the 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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