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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is urgency to address Agenda Four. The Minister might need to reconsider allocating more funds for Agenda Four. The Minister has made good progress on equity and equality but the issue of security and accountability needs to be looked into in a more detailed manner. Recently, we were told that there is a committee to look at security and all those sorts of things. I think we need to allocate enough money to ensure that this country is well secured. I, really, do not understand why some newspapers complain that about Kshs40 billion has been allocated to the Ministry of State for Defence when we know very well that as a country, our sovereignty depends on that Ministry. I do not know whether they have an idea of how much an Abram Tanker costs. One of them costs US$2 million. If they are saying that President Museveni is threatening us over Migingo Island and at the same time, they do not want us to arm our officers to defend the country, then they are being self-defeatist. I want to believe that defence and internal security are critical issues for the survival of any government. This country is in a mess today because of the internal security docket. Management of security in the country is gone to the dogs. That is why Kenyans can fist on each other. We have seen a lot of irregular forces developing capacity to challenge our security forces internally. Unless we spend more money on this, there is no point of pretending that we want to spend money on agriculture and then we end up being another Somalia, because we cannot sustain our internal security. Therefore, it is important that, as leaders, we understand that the spinal cord of our country is in internal security and defence from foreign aggressions. These are two very important issues that I want Members of Parliament to consider as we look into the details of the Budget that the Minister came up with. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister let us down when he gave money for the road to Modogashe. He needed to give us more money to connect this country to Ethiopia through Moyale. That would have assured us that, at least, exports"
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