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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "community stated the value of looted property to be around Kshs3 billion. I hope the Ministry of Interior will sit and evaluate at the end of all this chaos. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I challenge the young people and any other Kenyan demonstrating, that they should do so in a peaceful manner and the police should provide the necessary security. I borrow the many other issues that my colleagues have talked about and I associate strongly with that. Ordinarily, it should not be the President responding to all these other issues, especially on regular security briefs. I would have expected even the police spokesperson; we used to have somebody called Mr. Owino and Mr. Bruno Shioso. Now, the only time IG has responded is when he saw allegations of fatalities in Haiti and he sent a statement. Not just legally, but even morally, the IG should have at least appeared on a regular basis to update the country on security situation. He should have told the country how many people have unfortunately died and injured, how many properties have been looted and generally on the state of the security. The state of the homeland security is the least we expected from IG. His stay in office is no longer tenable. We must do a proper reshuffle within the security apparatus of this country, especially on the homeland security so that we have a police service, not a police force as was envisaged by the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. So, I agree with my colleagues that the IG must be called out for failing to provide leadership and to morally and legally update the country on the security situation. We are told there were demos yesterday. Others are being planned. That is the least we expect of even, particularly on the cases of where police have had shooting incidences. He should be briefing the country on the circumstances under which the police shot some of the protesters and whether they work together with the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). Fourthly, is on corruption. We know when I raised an issue of opulence of some of the Cabinet Ministers, I was blasted, accused of jealousy, accused of not knowing how to do deals, accused of coming to take tea and mandazi in Parliament instead of going to Tanzania and other countries to broker deals. It is unfortunate because I was just calling out that do not eat too much and vomit on the feet of Kenyans, as a former ambassador would say. Even in my culture, where I come from, you do not eat and open your shirt. It is a curse. I called them out and you can remember that I was being blasted left, right and centre. I warned them that if this trend of displaying opulence by MPs and some cabinet secretaries without humility--- I am happy that the quality of air has improved for the last two weekends. When choppers were crisscrossing, it was affecting our agenda of climate change. People would fly in, land, reorganize the programme of a funeral or a church service, speak, insult other elected leaders, call them dimwits and fools; the way I was called in Nandi last year. They would give out money in millions of shillings, that God knows where they got it from, and then they fly away in the chopper, disrupting a social function for the next one hour or 30 minutes before they settle. On the issue of corruption, as a proposal to the President and the EACC, we must start doing lifestyle audits to all state officers, governors and any person serving in a public office. We must know because the reason Kenyans, the Gen Z, were on the streets 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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