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"content": "Kiambu County and various other areas. It is wrong and we must say it as it is, that it is wrong and barbaric. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have to ask ourselves whether, as a country, we have laws to protect our young women who in most cases cannot speak for themselves. We are elected, we are here, not because of a right. It is a privilege; we are given an opportunity to come and represent our people. We pass laws. So the first question to ask is this, does this country called Kenya have laws to protect women? Today, as I stand here, I want to argue that dealing with the issue of femicide is a multi-agency approach. We find Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) talking about the protection of women. We find Government institutions talking about the protection of women, of our girls. I am a father of girls. God has blessed me with two beautiful girls and maybe more to come. I want to know that as long as God allows me to breathe this free air, I will be able to be counted as one of those people who protected their daughters. So, as I stand here, I need to analyze and critique our criminal justice system, and our legislative journey, to see whether it is Parliament or is it the Executive that is failing. We have laws to protect our women, and we have laws to protect our young women from domestic violence. The challenge is that the implementation is wanting. Sometimes because of our cultural norms, it is easy to say, it is okay, let us just deal with it. However, it is about time that now, we put our priorities right. We must ensure that our criminal justice system, our law and order, protect these young girls. The only way that Kenyans can be convinced that, yes, indeed, we are determined, not only as a House that makes laws but also as Executive that implements those laws, is by making sure that those people who kill these young girls are arrested, and justice must be given to those families. Madam Temporary Speaker, I hear, and I hope that you will give me some more time, because I am the last speaker, and we end at 6.30 p.m. I have listened to my colleague, Sen. Sifuna, and he has alluded to the fact that we spend billions of shillings to secure our urban centres. We have CCTV cameras all over. We know that Nairobi City County was not able to deliver that function. So, under Article 187 of the Constitution of Kenya, they had a collaboration with the national Government. There was the creation of something called the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS), and there was a command centre. It is time for us to follow up and say, that command centre, what is it for? Or, is it one of those incidences where a command centre comes, people come in there, put CCTV all over, create a command centre and you do not pay them bills, so they end up sabotaging it? If that command centre is there, then, by all means, the Inspector General (IG) should sit there and arrest or follow those people who killed these young girls, and they are running a mock across two counties, Machakos and Nairobi, dispersing different parts of the bodies. We need to ask those questions. This is so painful that we must push forward. I thank Sen. Oketch Gicheru for causing this House - and I hope that our distinguished Members of this House, all of them would have been here because of the weight of this matter. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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